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Cultural studies
paperback. Charting the cultural imagination of Haiti, this text argues for the recognition of both vodou rituals and narrative fictions as repositories of history. The book gives human dimensions to the 18th-century French colony and provides a template for understanding the Haiti of today. Num Pages: 362 pages, 34 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KJH; HBJK; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034743
- ISBN
- 9780520213685
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€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Get inside the complex world of the intellectual with Steve Fuller's brilliant and original exploration of this rare and exotic life form. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: HPM; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 139. Weight in Grams: 275. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Icon Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034702
- ISBN
- 9781840466539
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€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Explores Western culture while tracing its roots back to an ancient Proto-Indo-European homeland. The book explores ancient myth, the evidence of language history and the archaeological record and shows how the origin of Western civilization lies deeper than expected. Num Pages: 440 pages, 66 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 169 x 29. Weight in Grams: 542. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press Of America
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034579
- ISBN
- 9780819198600
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. This book is the first documentation of Hottinger's Arabic and Islamic studies. It includes a biographical account of Hottinger, studies of his activities as a bibliographer of Arabic texts, as teacher of the Arabic language, as student of the history of Islam, and as a Protestant who used his work to engage in anti-Catholic polemics. Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JD; HBJF; JFCX; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034553
- ISBN
- 9780199682140
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€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. 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. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034530
- ISBN
- 9780674021884
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Since Newton's papers became available in the 1970s, the beginnings of a new picture of Newton have emerged, as a synthesizer of science and religion revealed in his intellectual context. Editor(s): Force, James E.; Popkin, Richard H. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 350 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRCM; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 646. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Springer
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034522
- ISBN
- 9780792357445
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
The Uses of Antiquity: The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tra...
(Edited By Stephen Gaukroger)
hardcover. Editor(s): Gaukroger, Stephen. Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 576. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034506
- ISBN
- 9780792311300
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€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, was the setting for the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". This text examines the testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these performances. Series: Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034472
- ISBN
- 9780674009639
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674015968
- ISBN
- 9780674015968
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Condition: New
€ 63.50
€ 63.50
paperback. This is a classic account of the origins of freemasonry, a brotherhood of men bound together by secret initiatives. Num Pages: 270 pages, 14 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; JFCX; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 400. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034336
- ISBN
- 9780521396547
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. This treatise on modernism and postmodernism establishes that modernists' faith in the cult of novelty inevitably led to its destruction. Exploring the paradoxical nature of the modernist tradition in literature and the arts, the author considers its aesthetic and moral contradictions. Num Pages: 158 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: ACX; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034332
- ISBN
- 9780231075770
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. This work is of interest to specialists within the discipline, philosophers and intellectual historians. Editor(s): Garber, Daniel; Nadler, Steven. Series: Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460. Volume III only. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034329
- ISBN
- 9780199203932
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Bynum examines several periods between the third and fourteenth centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western eschatology, and suggests that Western attitudes toward the body that arose from these discussions still undergird our modern notions of the individual. Series: ACLS Lectures on the History of Religions S. Num Pages: 384 pages, 35 illus. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; 3H; HRCM; HRCS1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 28. Weight in Grams: 817. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034283
- ISBN
- 9780231081269
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. Traces the dual strains of 'iconophilia' and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of two-and-a-half millennia in the West. This book addresses arguments regarding the moral authority of the image in European Christianity from the medieval through the early modern periods. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 432 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: AC; AGR; HRAM7; HRC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 730. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034226
- ISBN
- 9780226044132
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. A 2001 reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history, treating the civil and metaphysical philosophers as rival intellectual cultures. Series: Ideas in Context. Num Pages: 426 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 816. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034217
- ISBN
- 9780521792653
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034167
- ISBN
- 9780631203230
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Few scholars have analysed class in children's literature. This definitive collection remedies that by defining and exemplifying historical materialist approaches to children's literature. The thirteen essays analyse a wide range of texts using concepts in historical materialism from class struggle to the commodity. Editor(s): Hubler, Angela E. Series: Children's Literature Association Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSRC; DSY; JFCA; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781496807830
- ISBN
- 9781496807830
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Condition: New
€ 51.21
€ 51.21
paperback. In this new edition, Professor Riley makes available the most representative pieces from Leibniz's political theory. Editor(s): Riley, Patrick. Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034131
- ISBN
- 9780521358996
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
hardcover. This book analyses the historical evolution of rational expectations by focusing on the changing ideas of Thomas Sargent. Series Editor(s): Goodwin, Craufurd D. Series: Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics. Num Pages: 256 pages, notes, references. BIC Classification: JFCX; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034058
- ISBN
- 9780521571647
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
paperback. Culture, Raymond Williams once wrote, is one of the most difficult words in language. Since then the concept has become part of our everyday vocabulary; it is used in a variety of different contexts: to describe the behaviour of corporations or criminals; to provide personal and national identity; it even gives its name to a Department of State. Series: Key Concepts. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GBCY; JFC; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Polity
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033986
- ISBN
- 9780745623818
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00