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Paperback. Discusses major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in philosophy in the African context. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philosophy, this book focuses on scholarship and relevant debates that have made African philosophy critical to understanding the rich and complex cultural heritage of the continent. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; GTB; HP; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Second
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221230
- ISBN
- 9780253221230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.38
€ 27.99
€ 25.38
Hardback. Arguing that celebrity is a mirror reflecting some of the worst as well as some of the best aspects of modern history itself, this book considers how the lives of the rich and famous provide not only entertainment but also social cohesion and, like morality plays, examples of what - and what not - to do. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691135625
- ISBN
- 9780691135625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.27
€ 32.99
€ 24.27
Hardback. A long-overdue challenge to the commonplace assumption that the Second World War was a period of consumer austerity in Canada. Series: Studies in Canadian Military History. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBWQ; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 0. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774823630
- ISBN
- 9780774823630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.51
€ 112.51
Paperback. This work employs detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate the study's claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 516 pages, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHM; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 788. Civility and Science in Seventeenth-century England. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. 516 pages, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings. This work employs detailed historical narrative to argue about the establishment of factual knowledge both in science and in everyday practice. Accounts of gentlemen-philosophers are used to illustrate the study's claim that trust is imperative for constituting every kind of knowledge. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: JFCX; JHM; PDA; PDX. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 27. Weight: 700.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 516
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226750194
- ISBN
- 9780226750194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.34
€ 46.99
€ 36.34
Paperback. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, the author of this volume explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in 18th-century Connecticut. Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 524 pages, 18 illustrations, 4 figures, index, appendices. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CBP; CFG; GTC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill
- Number of pages
- 524
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0227922
- ISBN
- 9780807847725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Examines culinary writing and practices as forces for the production of social order and, at the same time, points of cultural resistance. This book offers a close reading of a wide variety of sources and genres to uncover the intersections of food, politics, and privilege in American culture. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 283 pages, 8 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFCV; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520284982
- ISBN
- 9780520284982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.99€ 20.84
€ 28.99
€ 20.84
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857851512
- ISBN
- 9780857851512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.18
€ 45.99
€ 38.18
Paperback. This is a comprehensive analysis of the main dynamics of modernity which discusses the technological, social and political elements of modernism, and analyzes the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Arendt. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631216131
- ISBN
- 9780631216131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.60
€ 48.60
Hardback. This is a comprehensive analysis of the main dynamics of modernity which discusses the technological, social and political elements of modernism, and analyzes the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Arendt. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631216124
- ISBN
- 9780631216124
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.86
€ 146.86
Hardback. A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities -- shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned with individuals and materialism. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHM; KNPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 429.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745619453
- ISBN
- 9780745619453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.59
€ 64.59
Hardback. Shows how the evolution of the greeting card reveals the fundamental power of economic organization to enable and constrain experiences of longing, status, desire, social connectedness, and love and to structure and determine the most private, internal, and intimate of feelings. This book covers the development of the greeting card industry. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 368 pages, 85 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; JFC; KNTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231118781
- ISBN
- 9780231118781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.73€ 80.88
€ 105.73
€ 80.88
Paperback. This volume presents an exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, tracing the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing, incorporated neighbouring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship. Num Pages: 417 pages, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 417
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234246
- ISBN
- 9780520234246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.58
€ 38.99
€ 28.58
Hardback. How can we explain this striking paradox? Why do we often underestimate the virtue of moderation? Seeking to answer these questions, this book examines moderation in modern French political thought and focuses on the French Revolution and its legacy. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HPS; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146768
- ISBN
- 9780691146768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66€ 52.05
€ 66.66
€ 52.05
Hardcover. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; WBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 286 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1082.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Avery
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592409303
- ISBN
- 9781592409303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.45
€ 31.99
€ 30.45
Paperback. Parks are such a familiar part of everyday life. You might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there - and that they always will. In fact, the roots of even the most humble neighbourhood park lie in age-old battles over land and liberty. This celebration of parks is filled with history, and anecdotes. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFCA; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099593829
- ISBN
- 9780099593829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.57
€ 14.99
€ 11.57
Paperback. Introduces readers to medieval life through the experience of Peter Abelard, the master of the Paris schools, whose career included, seducing Heloise, being castrated, accused of treason, condemned as a heretic, as well as writing his memoirs - his "story of calamities". Num Pages: 432 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3H; BGH; HBJD; HBLC; HPCB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631214441
- ISBN
- 9780631214441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.56
€ 48.56
Hardback. The essays in this volume illuminate key conditions for autonomy and development: the definition and redefinition of national territories as cultural orders clash and mix; control of resource bases upon which northern economies depend; and renewal and reworking of cultural identity. Editor(s): Scott, Colin H. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCQ; GTF; JFC; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774808446
- ISBN
- 9780774808446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.98
€ 118.98
Paperback. This illustrated, full colour narrative is a testament to 11,000 years of Aboriginal history in Alberta. Num Pages: 92 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781460122297
- ISBN
- 9781460122297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.55
€ 21.99
€ 17.55
Hardback. Presents over 10,000 buttons of all imaginable materials from 150 AD to the present in full color and relates their history and development around the world. It is certain to become the "bible" for the button enthusiast or dealer. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1100 color photos. BIC Classification: AKTA; JFCK; WC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 316 x 236 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2234.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887405556
- ISBN
- 9780887405556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.89€ 60.92
€ 83.89
€ 60.92
Paperback. Travelling from high culture to pop culture and back again, this book approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's "The Confidence-Man" through the film "Wall Street". Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 292 pages, 38 halftones. BIC Classification: HPC; HRAB; HRLK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226791623
- ISBN
- 9780226791623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 30.81
€ 38.99
€ 30.81
Hardcover. People rely on reason to navigate the abstract world of human relations in the same way they rely on maps to traverse the physical world. This work offers a critique of the way human thought and action have become immersed in the rhetoric of cartography and how this cartographic reasoning allows the powerful to map out other people's lives. Num Pages: 584 pages, 45 halftones, 2 maps, 1 line drawing, 24 figures. BIC Classification: JFC; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 189 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1400.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 584
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First Edition (1st printing),
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226629308
- ISBN
- 9780226629308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.72€ 44.63
€ 51.72
€ 44.63
Paperback. The inside story of the Rolling Stones according to the Rolling Stones themselves. Num Pages: 368 pages, 120. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGF; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- V9780753818442
- ISBN
- 9780753818442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.48
€ 14.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. Presents a portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles. This book establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues. Illustrator(s): Lattimore, Deborah Nourse. Num Pages: 356 pages, 23 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520074071
- ISBN
- 9780520074071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.76
€ 45.99
€ 32.76
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816636051
- ISBN
- 9780816636051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.10
€ 35.10