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Paperback. Where does Neo-Confucianism fit into the story of China's history? This book argues that as Neo-Confucians put their philosophy of learning into practice in local society, they justified a social ideal in which society at the local level was led by the literati with state recognition and support. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages, 1 halftone, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HRKN1; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053243
ISBN
9780674053243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.81

Paperback. Readers of Greek literary, historical, oratorical, ritual and even medical texts, are all liable to encounter ideas of pollution. This text seeks to describe and analyze this wide-ranging and complex concept. Series: Clarendon Paperbacks. Num Pages: 432 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198147428
ISBN
9780198147428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 154.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HRKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 12. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824836016
ISBN
9780824836016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.16

Paperback. This is an illustrated study of the nymph in the ancient Greek world. It examines nymphs as both religious and mythopoetic figures, tracing their development and significance in Greek culture from Homer, through to the Hellenistic period. Num Pages: 392 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HRKP; JFC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195144659
ISBN
9780195144659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.96

paperback. This book offers an ethnography of the emergence of a local Christianity and its relation to changing social, political and economic formations among the Peki Ewe in Ghana. Series: International African Library. Num Pages: 288 pages, col. Illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDH; HRCX7; HRKT; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 232 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748613038
ISBN
9780748613038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.60

Paperback. This volume gathers together papers on Greek religion which have been revised by their authors and/or provided with addenda, to take account of the most recent scholarship at the turn of the millennium. Editor(s): Buxton, Richard F. Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Num Pages: 384 pages, 9 halftones, numerous line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198721901
ISBN
9780198721901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.22

hardcover. A study of The Sacred Books of the East, a fifty-volume series of translations of Asian religious writings edited by the German-born philologist and scholar of religions, Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900), and published by Oxford University Press between 1879 and 1910. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HRAB; HRCM; HRKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198784234
ISBN
9780198784234
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.87

paperback. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original - and originally shocking - interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. This text contains the distillation of her studies, combined with new disco veries, insights, and analysis. Editor(s): Dexter, Miriam Robbins. Num Pages: 306 pages, 78 b/w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; HRK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 174 x 19. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780520229150
ISBN
9780520229150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 23.11

paperback. Num Pages: 536 pages, 15 color illus. 71 halftones. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; HBG; HBLA; HRKP; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780691170275
ISBN
9780691170275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.61

Hardcover. The Rastafari have been travelling to Ethiopia since the movement originated in Jamaica in 1930s. This book offers the investigation into how Ethiopians perceive Rastafari and Rastafarians within Ethiopia and the role this unique immigrant community plays within Ethiopian society. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1HFGA; HRK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479882243
ISBN
9781479882243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.55

Paperback. A groundbreaking addition to today's popular literature on death and dying, in The Pagan Book of Living and Dying is the first comprehensive guide to Paganism's beliefs and practices in facing death. Num Pages: 384 pages, music. BIC Classification: DNF; HRKP; HRLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
HarperOne
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062515162
ISBN
9780062515162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 10.68

Paperback. This book argues that specialized cadres of virgin priestesses in ancient Greece were believed to give birth in miraculous fashion as a means of bringing forth holy political and spiritual leaders. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HRAX; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111325
ISBN
9780230111325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.30

Hardcover. Afro-Eccentricity explores three overlapping stories of Black Religion: the Soul, Black Church, and Ancestor Narratives. Hart contends that these narratives dominate most accounts of Black Religion that, collectively, he calls the "Standard Narrative of Black Religion." Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230111578
ISBN
9780230111578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 46.64

Hardcover. Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSY; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230218390
ISBN
9780230218390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 43.83

In this collection of original essays, leading scholars of East Asian studies seek to define the deeply religious dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian thought and practice in order to demonstrate its intellectual connections with other traditions of thought--such as Taoism, Buddhism, and Shintoism--at specific junctures in history. Editor(s): Cohen, Irene; Fogel, Joshua A. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; HPDF; HRAB; HRKN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231103527
ISBN
9780231103527
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.46
€ 72.54

The experience of the divine in India has three components, sight, performance, and sound. One in a trilogy of books that include Diana Eck's Darsan: Seeing the Divine in India, and Susan L. Schwartz's Rasa: Performing the Divine in India, Mantra presents an introduction to the use of sound-mantra-in the practice of Indian religion. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1KBB; HRK; HRLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231129602
ISBN
9780231129602
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.08
€ 68.38

Paperback. Examines how the Brahmanical tradition of Purva Mimamsa and the writings of the seventh-century Buddhist Madhyamika philosopher Candrakirti challenged dominant Indian Buddhist views of epistemology. This book retrieves these two different but equally important voices of philosophical dissent. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; HRAB; HRK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132817
ISBN
9780231132817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.14

Paperback. This full-length study of the Premi, the first in a language other than Chinese, makes a valuable contribution to our ethnographic knowledge of Southwest China, as well as to our understanding of contemporary Chinese religious and cultural politics. Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPCT; HRKN; JFSR; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295990699
ISBN
9780295990699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.39

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312216375
ISBN
9780312216375
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
299
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239695
ISBN
9780312239695
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

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