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Paperback. Catharine MacKinnon has been very instrumental in making equal rights real for women. As Peter Jennings once put it, more than anyone else in legal studies, she "has made it easier for other women to seek justice". This collection talks about her clear and consistent approach to reframing the law of men on the basis of the lives of women. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 738.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674024069
- ISBN
- 9780674024069
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.03
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Hardback. Set in Germany, northern France, Italy, Poland, and Spain, the essays in this book focus on leading rabbinic scholars and their writings, as well as important issues of Jewish intellectual history, such as the nature of halakhah and aggadah, kabbalah and spirituality, childhood and popular religion. Series: Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 238 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: DSB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard Center for Jewish Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023932
- ISBN
- 9780674023932
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.17
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€ 34.17
Paperback. The decision to fortify north-eastern France has usually been considered a tragic mistake, an example of bad planning and missed opportunities. Here, the author attempts to negate this, by providing a view of how France's military and political leaders tried to safeguard their nation and why they failed. Series: Harvard Historical Monographs S. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBW; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023864
- ISBN
- 9780674023864
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.96
€ 32.99
€ 27.96
Hardback. The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, shaped by successive waves of new arrivals. The most recent transformation began when immigration laws and policies changed significantly in 1965. Edited and written by a group of prominent scholars, this book provides an authoritative account of the most recent surge of immigrants. Editor(s): Waters, Mary C.; Ueda, Reed. Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library. Num Pages: 642 pages, 1 map, 80 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 172 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1110.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 642
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023574
- ISBN
- 9780674023574
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.53
€ 52.99
€ 44.53
Hardback. Offers a study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before WWII. This book examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, politically resonant, globally popular entertainment extravaganzas. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JPS; WSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023260
- ISBN
- 9780674023260
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Condition: New
€ 78.85€ 72.48
€ 78.85
€ 72.48
Hardback. Written by civil rights historian Adam Fairclough, this book chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration 100 years later. Built from stories of real men and women, it explores how teachers inspired generations of children, instilling values that nourished racial pride and a desire for equality. Num Pages: 422 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSL3; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 43. Weight in Grams: 920.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023079
- ISBN
- 9780674023079
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Hardback. By early 1787, John and Abigail Adams were planning their return home to Massachusetts from Great Britain. But they barely had time to settle in, before they were pulled back into the public sphere by John's election as the first vice-president under the new Constitution. This book offers a perspective on this crucial period in American history. Editor(s): Hogan, Margaret A.; Taylor, C. James; Rodrique, Jessie May; Woodward, Hobson; Lint, Gregg L.; Claffey, Mary T. Series: Adams Papers. Num Pages: 592 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022782
- ISBN
- 9780674022782
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.85€ 117.66
€ 131.85
€ 117.66
Hardback. What did it mean to run a large, commercialized agrarian polity according to the best Confucian principles? This book is intended as a contribution to both intellectual and political history. It offers a detailed view of members of an ostensibly Confucian government pursuing divergent agendas around the question of "state or merchant?" Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 550 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JF; JP; KCP; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 44. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022621
- ISBN
- 9780674022621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.12€ 50.74
€ 54.12
€ 50.74
Paperback. Aims to offer a concise history of the First World War based on the research and insights into the soldiers, commanders, battles, and legacies of the Great War. Num Pages: 416 pages, 89 halftones, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022515
- ISBN
- 9780674022515
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.03
€ 34.99
€ 30.03
Hardback. From romanticism through postmodernism, the imagination has become a reference point for thinking about the self, culture, philosophy and politics. How has imagination influenced our understanding of experience? This title uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HP; JFCX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021884
- ISBN
- 9780674021884
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Condition: New
€ 129.49€ 116.99
€ 129.49
€ 116.99
Hardcover. Begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early 19th Century. This book examines in turn the prefaces written by four women for a novel about women; the activities of a woman editor and writer of fiction; and writings on fiction by three leading literary women. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 180 x 35. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021464
- ISBN
- 9780674021464
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.06
€ 54.99
€ 46.06
Hardcover. Explores the practices that have constituted eastern Hui'an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han. This book asks what such practices have come to mean in a post-1949 socialist order that has incorporated forms of marriage, labour and dress into a developmental scale extending from the primitive to the civilised. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 line illustrations, 3 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021280
- ISBN
- 9780674021280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.60
€ 54.99
€ 46.60
Paperback. Looks at the anthropology of the Greeks and other cultures across space and time, and in the process discovers aspects of the art of comparability. This book tries to see how cultural systems react not just to a touchstone category, but also to the questions and concepts that arise from the reaction. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021259
- ISBN
- 9780674021259
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.60
€ 19.99
€ 18.60
Paperback. In this expansion of their widely acclaimed The Iraq War: A Military History, Williamson Murray and Robert Scales once again boldly enter the theatre of conflict while the struggle still rages. Num Pages: 368 pages, 78 color illustrations, 5 color maps. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBW; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 211 x 23. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674019683
- ISBN
- 9780674019683
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.11
€ 34.99
€ 30.11
Paperback. Latin America is a profoundly philanthropic region with deeply rooted traditions of solidarity with the less fortunate. This volume brings together groundbreaking perspectives on such diverse themes as corporate philanthropy, immigrant networks, and new grant-making and operating foundations with corporate, family, and community origins. Editor(s): Portocarrero, Felipe. Series: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 390 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; JHM; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press Massachusetts
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674019652
- ISBN
- 9780674019652
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.92
€ 27.99
€ 24.92
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 236 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674019515
- ISBN
- 9780674019515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.60
€ 54.99
€ 46.60
Hardcover. Explores the spread in recent years of political efforts to rectify injustices handed down from the past. Concerns to right the wrongs of the past, the book concludes, may distract from the fight to overcome contemporary injustices. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674019430
- ISBN
- 9780674019430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.00€ 55.91
€ 60.00
€ 55.91
Hardcover. Aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as undergraduate economics. Deals with standard topics including automobiles, pollution, housing and education. But also discusses topics such as segragation, garbage, homelessness and economic development. Num Pages: 608 pages, 53 line illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 178 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1220.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674019188
- ISBN
- 9780674019188
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.74
€ 124.74
Hardcover. During the 1990s the United States undertook the greatest social policy reform since the Social Security Act of 1935. A crucial resourse for policy economists, social policy specialists, and other professionals concerned wi th welfare policy. Series: RAND Corporation Research Study. Num Pages: 352 pages, 45 line illustrations; 27 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 922.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674018914
- ISBN
- 9780674018914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.56€ 76.62
€ 83.56
€ 76.62
Paperback. "Passing Lines" seeks to stimulate dialogue on the role of sexuality and sexual orientation in immigration to the U.S. from Latin America and the Caribbean. The book looks at the complexities, inconsistencies, and paradoxes of immigration from the point of view of both academics and practitioners in the field. Editor(s): Epps, Brad; Valens, Keja; Gonzalez, Bill Johnson. Series: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; JFFN; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 33. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press Massachusetts
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674018853
- ISBN
- 9780674018853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.92
€ 27.99
€ 24.92