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What makes a map a treasure? Cartographic Treasures of the Newberry Library is an extended meditation on this simple question that defies a simple answer. The maps in this catalogue were selected from the approximately 300,000 historic maps in Chicago's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062288998Author M. g. ReyesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 296g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061565892Author Anita LobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909492943Author Donna StrahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams) 600g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062421593Author Michael SlackFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

J. Michael Wilson (1916-1999), Soldier, Medical Doctor, Priest and Academic, may be best known for his often ground-breaking professional achievement, from working with lepers in Ghana to his seminal work in Pastoral Studies. For all his successful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780366604944Author Commission of Fine ArtsFormat HardbackPage Count 57Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten Books

The International Student's Guide to Writing a Research Paper is a reference text for undergraduate students and those in ESL or bridge courses who are writing a research paper for the first time. This book is partly an update of Writing a Research Paper...

One-on-one encounters with writers often contribute more to the development of student writing abilities than any classroom activity because they are personalized and responsive to individual needs. For the encounters to be successful, the writing tutor,...

As public accountability has increased and resources have become scarcer, public health, like clinical medicine, has been forced to re-examine the benefits and costs of its activities. Decision and economic analysis are basic tools in carrying out that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599691169Author Haynes PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Clymer PublicationsPublisher Haynes Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Containing ten essays by anthropologists on the beliefs and practices associated with witches and sorcerers in Eastern Africa, the chapters in this book are all based on field research and new information which is studied within its wider social context...

This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points. Habermas's theory represents one of the most persuasive current formulations of moral and political notions of subjectivity and...

Originally published in 1964, this volume gathers together extracts from many of Arberry's best-known works and supplements them with a selection of previously unpublished translations. The material therefore presents a vivid picture of the richness and...

This Volume VII of twenty-one in a collection on Class, Race and Social Structure. First published in 1953, this text looks at personality development in English Society between the more deprived and the privileged members of society. It explores the...

The question of 'postmodernity' that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into...

The intention of this book is to explore the relationship between an ideological idiom and the changing social movement in which it operates. The basic question is that of what roles an Islamic symbol complex played in different phases of the Palestinian...

This is a study of the structure and composition of the official learning current in medieval Arabic culture. This comprises natural sciences both exoteric and esoteric (medicine, alchemy, astrology and others), traditional and religious sciences (such...

Egypt was the first of the Arab-speaking Muslim countries to come into close contact with modern European states. The experience was not a particularly happy one. It resulted in political and economic subjugation and in the breakdown of her traditional...

Egyptian education is a central, social and economic force in the Middle East. For hundreds of years Al Azhar University has been the centre of Islamic thinking and education. More recently Egypt became the leader in secular education as Mohammed Ali...

* Gives an account of the history, the theological basis, the practice and the current state of the study of religion and religions throughout the world* Combines a clear and non-technical style of presentation with a structure and range of contributions...

Originally published in 1986.In this study of initiation in the Nikayas (Discourses of the Buddha), the author presents evidence which makes it clear that salvation in early Buddhism depended upon the intervention of the Buddha's grace. Contrary to the...

The starting point for this book, first published in 1992, is a question of rhetoric - as much in the writings of feminism as in other writing about women. How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for...

First published in 1998. This is Volume VII, the final of seven in the Sociology of Mental Health series. Written in 1953, this book is about individuals who choose and are chosen for psychiatric social work, the use that they make of training and the...

(International Journal of American Linguistics, 21: 4, Part 1, Memoir 11)Book InformationISBN 9780226345741Author Charles F. HockettFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569026212Author Zeleke WorkuFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

This is Volume IV in a series of twenty-two on Race, Class and Social Structure. Originally published in 1947, in this study is an attempt to sum up the lessons offered by co-operative communities of the past and present. The work deals with two...

Over the last ten years the Egyptian economy has undergone a major transformation which has led to greater decentralisation and international competition. This transformation, along with changing circumstances in the surrounding Arab areas and the end of...

A work of history, culture, politics, economics, packed with period photographs and period insights.Book InformationISBN 9781138108271Author Percy MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729402989Author Haydn MasonFormat HardbackPage Count 493Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 3395g

An index of all the entries in the previous 249 volumes of the series.Book InformationISBN 9780729403467Author Martin SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 885g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729402613Author T. W. BowlingFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 655g

Did King Edward I really give his baby son the title he had stolen from Gwynedd's native princes? Or was the truth a little more complex? This up-to-date and concise overview covers the origins of the title, Prince of Wales, and the lives and activities...

The wooden statue of the Mother and Child enthroned, known as sedes sapientiae, the Seat or Throne of Wisdom, reached the brilliant culmination of its development as a genre of religious sculpture in the twelfth century. As a visible expression of the...

This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789073217034Author Herman KremerFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Barbara Hardy has concentrated on the late period from 1900 to 1916, observing language and theme in close readings of The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, The Sacred Fount, the great ghost-story, The Jolly Corner and other tales,...

What makes a president great? Here is the ideal source for students, scholars, and the general public. The American Presidents is a collection of articles that analyze and evaluate the presidential careers of the men who have occupied the office...

More people than ever are going to graduate school to seek a PhD these days. When they get there, they discover a bewildering environment: a rapid immersion in their discipline, keen competition for resources, and uncertain options for their future,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729400657Author George R. HavensFormat HardbackPage Count 261Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 150g