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Hardback. This is a translation into English of the complete "Yin-Hai Jing-Wei", a classic 15th-century text on Chinese ophthalmology. This work offers an unprecedented view of the practice of medicine, and specifically eye care, in pre-modern China. Editor(s): Unschuld, Paul U.; Kovacs, Jurgen. Translator(s): Kovacs, Jurgen; Unschuld, Paul U. Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems & Medical Care. Num Pages: 525 pages, 4 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNF; JFCX; MJQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 233 x 36. Weight in Grams: 954.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 525
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520080584
- ISBN
- 9780520080584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.81
€ 111.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white halftones, colour illust. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Publisher
- Drag City United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780965618311
- ISBN
- 9780965618311
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.89
€ 30.99
€ 26.89
Paperback. Harold Rosenberg was undoubtedly the most important American art critic of the twentieth century. It was he who first coined the term "Action Painters" to refer to the American Abstract Expressionists Num Pages: 285 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; ACXD1; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306805967
- ISBN
- 9780306805967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.22
€ 25.99
€ 22.22
Paperback. Harold Schecter looks at the impossible tales and images of popular art - the space odysseys and extraterrestrial civilizations, the caped crusaders and men of steel, and monsters from the ocean floor. He finds close connections between religious myth and popular entertainment. Num Pages: 180 pages, 17 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Popular Press 3
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879728687
- ISBN
- 9780879728687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.01
€ 33.01
paperback. This work shows how common sociological themes such as socialization, social interaction, the social construction of time, and deviance are experienced in work settings as diverse as the factory, the night club, the restaurant, and to offices of high tech professionals. Num Pages: 504 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780742519183
- ISBN
- 9780742519183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.73
€ 73.73
Hardback. Takes readers beyond familiar images of religious politicians and populations steeped in spirituality. This book shows how critical reason and Christian convictions have combined in surprising ways as African Christians confront issues such as national constitutions, gender relations, and the continuing struggle with HIV/AIDS. Editor(s): Englund, Harri. Series: Cambridge Centre of African Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HRC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821419458
- ISBN
- 9780821419458
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.82
€ 96.82
Hardback. Many people think of 'social problems' as involving poor and powerless individuals in society. This work seeks to improve the balance by adding a focus on important and powerful institutions. It discusses policy sciences, public policy analysis and public management. It addresses operations and design issues for government organizations. Editor(s): Hartman, Harriet. Series: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 598. Challenges, Practices, and Potentials. Series: Research in Social Problems and Public Policy. 300 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Hartman, Harriet. Many people think of 'social problems' as involving poor and powerless individuals in society. This work seeks to improve the balance by adding a focus on important and powerful institutions. It discusses policy sciences, public policy analysis and public management. It addresses operations and design issues for government organizations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JFMG. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 29. Weight: 598.
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848552982
- ISBN
- 9781848552982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.65
€ 168.65
paperback. This book explores the relationship between Calvin's thought about civil and ecclesiastical order and his own circumstances and activities. Series: Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCX; JPF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410. (1985) Good clean copy with minor shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0036781
- ISBN
- 9780521316385
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Paperback. Figures of a Changing World develops an account of culture change that is based on the distinction between the two rhetorical figures of metaphor and metonymy. These figures are applied both to the large-scale interpretation of tensions in culture change and to the micro-interpretation of tensions within particular texts. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823257485
- ISBN
- 9780823257485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.11
€ 28.11
Hardback. Figures of a Changing World develops an account of culture change that is based on the distinction between the two rhetorical figures of metaphor and metonymy. These figures are applied both to the large-scale interpretation of tensions in culture change and to the micro-interpretation of tensions within particular texts. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 147 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823257478
- ISBN
- 9780823257478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.18
€ 84.18
Paperback. Examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture based on fantasy and desire. Num Pages: 480 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691095486
- ISBN
- 9780691095486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.53
€ 88.53
Paperback. Through vivid ethnographic analyses, this book examines the range of expressions of the popular suspicion of power -including forms of shamanism, sorcery, conspiracy theory, and urban legends - illuminating them as ways of making sense of the world in the midst of tumultuous and uneven processes of modernization. Editor(s): Sanders, Todd. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822330240
- ISBN
- 9780822330240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.61
€ 46.61
Hardback. 'A timely account and analysis of the lived reality .. of West Indians who now tenant the Caribbean Diaspora in Britain.' Professor Rex Nettleford, University W Indies Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFC; JFSL3; JHBA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745317632
- ISBN
- 9780745317632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.09
€ 135.09
Paperback. In this work, historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries that compartmentalize the world around us. Exploring European and Japanese conceptions of modernity, he seeks to expose the archaic nature of scholarly categories. Series: Wellek Library Lectures S. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPJ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 179 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780231117951
- ISBN
- 9780231117951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.29
€ 46.29
Paperback. Harry Hendrick shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social-democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious and narcissistic parent, In this provocative history of parenting. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Policy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447322566
- ISBN
- 9781447322566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. Black Cultural Traffic traces how blackness travels globally in performance, engaging the work of an international and interdisciplinary mix of scholars, critics, and practicing artists. Editor(s): Elam, Harry J., Jr.; Jackson, Kennell. Num Pages: 416 pages, 15 photos, 3 drawings, 1 chart. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472068401
- ISBN
- 9780472068401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.21
€ 54.21
Paperback. Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 208 pages, 12 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AS; DS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472087686
- ISBN
- 9780472087686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.23
€ 37.23
paperback. Packed with facts and stories, this book helps you to learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; and why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. Num Pages: 368 pages, 8pp black 8pp colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780670919147
- ISBN
- 9780670919147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
Hardback. The contributors of these essays assess and employ philosophy as an activity taking place within experience and culture. The essays reveal a variety of approaches to the transition in which American philosophy is currently engaged, reinvesting its importance from a new angle of vision. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 281 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823216307
- ISBN
- 9780823216307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.79
€ 102.79
Paperback. The contributors of these essays assess and employ philosophy as an activity taking place within experience and culture. The essays reveal a variety of approaches to the transition in which American philosophy is currently engaged, reinvesting its importance from a new angle of vision. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 281 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823216314
- ISBN
- 9780823216314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.27
€ 51.27