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Paperback. When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. This title retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Num Pages: 280 pages, 32 halftones, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AV; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408. Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-century Italy. 280 pages, 32 halftones, 3 line drawings. When eight-year-old Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590-1662) entered one of the preeminent convents in Bologna in 1598, she had no idea what cloistered life had in store for her. This title retells the story of Vizzana and the nuns of Santa Cristina to elucidate the role that music played in the lives of these cloistered women. Cateogry: (UF) Further/Higher Education. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AV; HBJD; HBLH. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226535197
- ISBN
- 9780226535197
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€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96
Hardcover. Early modern Central Europe was the continent's most decentralized region politically and its most diverse ethnically and culturally. With the onset of the Reformation, it also became Europe's most religiously divided territory and potentially its most explosive in terms of confessional conflict and war.. Editor(s): Louthan, Howard; Cohen, Gary B.; Szabo, Franz A. J. Series: Austrian Habsburg Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 ills. BIC Classification: 1DF; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH; HRAM9. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451088
- ISBN
- 9780857451088
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Condition: New
€ 158.58
€ 158.58
Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HRAX; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801443671
- ISBN
- 9780801443671
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Condition: New
€ 84.10
€ 84.10
paperback. When the Berlin wall fell and the reunification of Germany began, Willy Brandt predicted that 'what belongs together will now grow together.'This study of Berlin's police force in the aftermath of reunification shows that forty years of separation left the nation with deep rifts. Num Pages: 383 pages, 16 halftones, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; GTB; HBJD; HBLW3; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 383
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226297842
- ISBN
- 9780226297842
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.68
€ 42.99
€ 32.68
Paperback. Detailing the role played by non-elites, this book presents a perspective on nationalism in the Arab Middle East in the early 20th century. It documents the appearance of the popular committee and examines nationalist politics as a mass phenomenon that informs the politics of the region today. Num Pages: 353 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBS; HBJF1; HBLW; JFSL; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520210707
- ISBN
- 9780520210707
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.65
€ 37.99
€ 27.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 b/w photos, 3 b/w maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Helion & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911096641
- ISBN
- 9781911096641
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.71
€ 26.99
€ 19.71
Hardback. Based on archival research in four countries, this title uncovers important links between international power politics and everyday matters of rights, identity, and resistance to colonial authority, while re-interpreting the whole arc of French rule in Tunisia from the 1880s to the mid-20th century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 365
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520279155
- ISBN
- 9780520279155
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Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 38.56
€ 53.99
€ 38.56
hardcover. Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801442308
- ISBN
- 9780801442308
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Condition: New
€ 94.36
€ 94.36
Paperback. The Allied agreement after the Second World War did not only partition Germany, it divided the nation along the fault-lines of a new bipolar world order. This inner border made Germany a unique place to experience the Cold War, and the "German question" in this post-1945 variant remained inextricably entwined with the vicissitudes of the Cold War. Editor(s): Hoscherf, Tobias; Laucht, Christoph; Plowman, Andrew. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782380993
- ISBN
- 9781782380993
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Condition: New
€ 45.05
€ 45.05
paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFFK; JKSB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 371.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801485466
- ISBN
- 9780801485466
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Condition: New
€ 57.86
€ 57.86
Hardcover. Dividing the Nile counters that Egyptian entrepreneurs failed to develop a united economy or shared economic interests, guaranteeing Egypt's 'loss' of the Sudan. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1HBS; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774166389
- ISBN
- 9789774166389
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Condition: New
€ 61.45
€ 61.45
Paperback. The story of the wars that led to the break-up of Alexander the Great's vast empire after his death in 323 BC and the brilliant cultural developments which accompanied this birth of a new world. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 black & white plates, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 134 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199647002
- ISBN
- 9780199647002
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.25
€ 14.99
€ 12.25
hardcover. This book compares the intellectual and social history and past and present contexts of mantic practices (divination) in Chinese and Greek antiquity. Num Pages: 496 pages, 26 b/w illus. 3 maps 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QDAG; 3D; HBLA1; HRKN; HRKP; HRLF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 252 x 176 x 28. Weight in Grams: 16.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107010758
- ISBN
- 9781107010758
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Condition: New
€ 140.05€ 130.63
€ 140.05
€ 130.63
Hardback. Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HRQC5; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801864995
- ISBN
- 9780801864995
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Condition: New
€ 77.19
€ 77.19
Hardcover. A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108998
- ISBN
- 9780230108998
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Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 181 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC; HBLA1; HDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 263 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1274.
- Publisher
- Steidl Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783958291799
- ISBN
- 9783958291799
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 30.13
€ 42.99
€ 30.13
paperback. This book discusses African religion and its place in a slave society, using the story of Domingos Sodre as its backdrop. Translator(s): Gledhill, H. Sabrina. Series: New Approaches to the Americas. Num Pages: 370 pages, 55 b/w illus. 4 maps 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781107439092
- ISBN
- 9781107439092
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.45
€ 35.99
€ 30.45
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Dundurn Group Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550024685
- ISBN
- 9781550024685
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.10
€ 36.99
€ 32.10
Paperback. "John Myers Myers has written Doc's story with a skill that matches the sureness of a bullet from Doc's gun."-Dallas Times Herald. "As for the general reader, he'll eat this up and beg for more."-San Francisco Chronicle. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803257818
- ISBN
- 9780803257818
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Condition: New
€ 19.28
€ 19.28
Paperback. Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Series: Studies in Social Medicine. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469615158
- ISBN
- 9781469615158
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Condition: New
€ 55.48
€ 55.48
Hardcover. Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire. In this book, the author uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 296 pages, 6 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226703275
- ISBN
- 9780226703275
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Condition: New
€ 52.17€ 44.67
€ 52.17
€ 44.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 362 pages, 73 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; AJ; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226775593
- ISBN
- 9780226775593
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.36
€ 46.99
€ 36.36
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States...
. Ed(S): United States Congress; Bowling, Ken...
A rich source of information about the members of Congress, their lives in New York, their concerns about their families, and the services they performed for their constituents, the documents from these three new volumes will be incorporated into The Early Republic, an innovative online reference hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Editor(s): United States Congress; Bowling, Kenneth R.; DiGiacomantonio, William Charles; Veit, Helen E. Series: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791. Num Pages: 1136 pages, 6, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 64. Weight in Grams: 1634.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894466
- ISBN
- 9780801894466
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 153.85
€ 153.85
Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States...
. Ed(S): United States Congress; Veit, Helen ...
Hardback. The editors once more have assembled the most complete and reliable text of the debates by examining a variety of sources: stenographer Thomas Lloyd's shorthand notes, his Congressional Register, and contemporary newspaper accounts. Editor(s): United States Congress; Veit, Helen E.; Bickford, Charlene Bangs; Bowling, Kenneth R.; DiGiacomantonio, William Charles. Series: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791. Num Pages: 888 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1276.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 888
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801845772
- ISBN
- 9780801845772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.45
€ 161.45