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paperback. Islamic art has long been misunderstood in the West as no more than decoration. This study explains how the geometrical patterns of Islamic art reveal intrinsic cosmological laws. The primary function of the patterns is to lead the mind from the literal world towards the underlying reality. Num Pages: 192 pages, 150 drawings. BIC Classification: 1QFM; ACBP; JFSR2; PGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 668. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033723
- ISBN
- 9780500270714
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
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hardcover. A study of the origins and rise of the Radical Enlightenment, an important part of the revolutionary process of change during the 17th and 18th centuries. This book analyzes the enlightenment's role in the demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought and belief. Num Pages: 832 pages, 16 pp plates, 5 halftones, map. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1344. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033780
- ISBN
- 9780198206088
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hardcover. This volume draws together Allan Gotthelf's pioneering work on Aristotle's biology. He examines Aristotle's natural teleology, the axiomatic structure of biological explanation, and the reliance on scientifically organized data in the three great works with which Aristotle laid the foundations of biological science. Series: Oxford Aristotle Studies. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; HPCA; JFCX; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 830. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PR
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033782
- ISBN
- 9780199287956
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
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hardcover. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 509. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- Martinus Nijhoff The Hague
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033796
- ISBN
- 9789024712991
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Condition: Used, Very Good
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hardcover. Editor(s): Lienhard, Marc. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Martinus Nijhoff The Hague
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033799
- ISBN
- 9789024718962
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
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paperback. An essential, illustrated primer on what makes society tick. Illustrator(s): Piero. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, 176 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FXZ; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 120 x 168 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Icon Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785780738
- ISBN
- 9781785780738
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Condition: New
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paperback. Demystifies the facts of Freud's discovery of psychoanalysis. This book tells the story of Freud's life and ideas from his upbringing in 19th-century Vienna, his early medical career and his encounter with cocaine, to the gradual evolution of his theories on the unconscious, dreams and sexuality. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JMAF; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 119 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Icon Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781840468519
- ISBN
- 9781840468519
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Condition: New
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paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JMH; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Pocket Essentials
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781842433478
- ISBN
- 9781842433478
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Condition: New
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paperback. Capitalism has influenced everything in the 21st-century world. This work tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and struggle as much as innovation and enterprise. Tracing capitalism from its beginning, it looks at its practical and theoretical impact. Illustrator(s): Piero. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 121 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848310551
- ISBN
- 9781848310551
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Condition: New
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paperback. Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? This book provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy, its roots in 19th century European ideology, and his radical economic and social criticism of capitalism. Illustrator(s): Zarate, Oscar. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 121 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Icon Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848310582
- ISBN
- 9781848310582
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Condition: New
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paperback. A guide to the state of consciousness studies. It presents the history of the philosophical relation between mind and matter, and covers the scientific attempts to explain consciousness in terms of neural mechanisms, cerebral computation and quantum mechanics. It also introduces readers to zombies, ghosts in machines and Schrodinger's cat. Illustrator(s): Selina, Howard. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JMTC; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 120 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848311718
- ISBN
- 9781848311718
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Condition: New
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paperback. Romanticism is crucial to an understanding of modern Western culture. Philosophy, art, literature, music, and politics were all transformed in the turbulent period between the French Revolution of 1789 and the Communist Manifesto of 1848. This was the age of the 'Romantic revolution'. Illustrator(s): Boreham, Judy. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; DSB; HPCD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 121 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848311787
- ISBN
- 9781848311787
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Condition: New
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paperback. INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst Illustrator(s): Zarate, Oscar. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 168 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848312135
- ISBN
- 9781848312135
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Condition: New
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paperback. Carl Gustav Jung was an enigmatic psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, the founder of analytical psychology and a one-time disciple of Freud. Introducing Jung explains his key theories that still inform our thinking on psychology and personality, describing the events that led to his creation of The Red Book. Illustrator(s): McGuiness, Michael; Pugh, Oliver. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JMAJ; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 120 x 168 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848318557
- ISBN
- 9781848318557
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Condition: New
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paperback. Drawing on new anthropological approaches, John Winkler considers the lives of men and women in Ancient Greece. Num Pages: 282 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JFSJ; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033844
- ISBN
- 9780415901239
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
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paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 212. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033854
- ISBN
- 9780674768680
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
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paperback. Political theorist Jean Bethke Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and the result is a book about one of the world's most complex thinkers. Series: Frank M.Covey, Jr., Loyola Lectures in Political Analysis S. Num Pages: 143 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033861
- ISBN
- 9780268020019
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
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paperback. Calling upon metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendos, and certain other "right-hemispheric" language games, Paul Watzlawick shows how we can (and do) make everyday life miserable. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JMAL; JMM; JMS; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 156. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033876
- ISBN
- 9780393310214
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
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The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China (Zone ...
François; Translated By Janet Lloyd Jullien
hardcover. In this book, his first to appear in English, French sinologistFrancois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi--meaningdisposition or circumstance, power or potential--as a touchstone toexplore Chinese culture and to uncover the intricate structureunderlying Chinese modes of thinking. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPDF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- ZONE BOOKS
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033928
- ISBN
- 9780942299946
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91
hardcover. A study of the psychological ideas of Galen (AD 129-c.210, the most important medical writer in antiquity) and Stoicism (a major philosophical theory in the Hellenistic and Roman periods), which Galen discussed extensively. Christopher Gill argues that the two theories are complementary, and still of value to the modern reader. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA; JMA; MBX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 156 x 37. Weight in Grams: 646. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033930
- ISBN
- 9780199556793
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91