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  • Israel in the Biblical Period
    Alberto J. Soggin / J. Alberto Soggin / John John Bowden
    In this short, accessible and readable book, Professor Soggin gives an account of all the features of Israelite and Jewish religion in the biblical period. After a radical assessment of the nature of the sources and the problems of using them historically, he discusses the origin of monotheism and Israel’s belief in its one God Yahweh. Then follow accounts of the three most im...
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    116,51 €

  • Tides in the Affairs of Men
    Cheryl A. Fury / Cheryl AFury
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    171,17 €

  • Bedouin Century
    A. Abu-Rabia / AAbu-Rabia / Aref Abu-Rabia
    The Bedouin in the Negev region have undergone a remarkable change of life style in the course of the 20th century: within a few generations they changed from being nomads to an almost sedentary and highly educated population. The author, who is a Bedouin himself and has worked in the Israeli Ministry of Education and Culture as Superintendent of the Bedouin Educational Schools...
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    184,49 €

  • Law, laity and solidarities
    Susan Reynolds
    The primary focus of this collection by leading medieval historians is the laity, in particular the ideas and ideals of lay people. The contributors explore lay attitudes as expressed in legal cases, charters, chronicles and collective activities. Highlights the centrality of kinship, whilst stressing its limitations as an all purpose social bond. Ranges chronologically and geo...
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    31,83 €

  • British culture and the end of empire
    This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular ...
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    33,21 €

  • God’s Judgement? Syphilis and AIDS
    Perry Treadwell
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    12,92 €

  • War in the Shadow of Auschwitz
    John Wiernicki
    1943: Polish underground fighter John Wiernicki is captured and beaten by the Gestapo, then shipped to Auschwitz. In this chilling memoir, Wiernicki, a Gentile, details 'life' in the infamous death camp, and his battle to survive, physically and morally, in the face of utter evil. The author begins by remembering his aristocratic youth, an idyllic time shattered by German invas...
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    41,20 €

  • Playboys in Paradise
    Bill Osgerby
    Post-war America was an exciting time. It was an age characterized by backyard barbecues and beach parties, mai-tai cocktails and Ford Mustangs, high school hops, Hawaiian shirts and Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire. This book charts middle-class America’s move towards an ethos of conspicuous consumption and sexual license during the fifties and sixties. Focusing on two of the peri...
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    193,50 €

  • Playboys in Paradise
    Bill Osgerby
    Post-war America was an exciting time. It was an age characterized by backyard barbecues and beach parties, mai-tai cocktails and Ford Mustangs, high school hops, Hawaiian shirts and Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire. This book charts middle-class America’s move towards an ethos of conspicuous consumption and sexual license during the fifties and sixties. Focusing on two of the peri...
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    57,62 €

  • Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1939
    David E. Kyvig / David EKyvig
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    88,77 €

  • Religion and Social Policy
    Religion and Social Policy explores how religious concerns influence those who shape and those who are shaped by policies. It queries the social teachings of global denominations and local congregations, as well as the implicit religious stances taken by national governments and international NGOs. For students of religion, sociology, politics or public policy, Religion and Soc...
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    69,21 €

  • The Monied Metropolis
    Sven Becker
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    114,24 €

  • Unfinished People
    Ruth Gay
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    18,99 €

  • ’Every City Shall Be Forsaken’
    Urbanism in ancient society has now become an important topic for both classical and ancient Near Eastern scholars. Equally, the question of prophecy as social institution and literary corpus has been increasingly problematized. The essays in this volume bring together these crucial aspects of modern biblical research, the scope ranging from methodological issues about sociolog...
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    317,68 €

  • Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914
    Helmut Walser Smith
    In the course of the nineteenth century, the boundaries that divided Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany were redrawn, challenged, rendered porous and built anew. This book addresses this redrawing. It considers the relations of three religious groups-Protestants, Catholics, and Jews-and asks how, by dint of their interaction, they affected one another.Previously, histor...
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    192,99 €

  • Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany, 1800-1914
    Helmut Walser Smith
    In the course of the nineteenth century, the boundaries that divided Protestants, Catholics and Jews in Germany were redrawn, challenged, rendered porous and built anew. This book addresses this redrawing. It considers the relations of three religious groups-Protestants, Catholics, and Jews-and asks how, by dint of their interaction, they affected one another. Previously, histo...
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    57,34 €

  • Commonwealth Catholicism
    S. J. Gerald P. Fogarty / SJGerald PFogarty
    Commonwealth Catholicism is the first comprehensive history of the Catholic Church in the State of Virginia. Distinguished historian Gerald P. Fogarty tells the story of Virginia’s Catholics in the state’s history, from the colonial period to the present. Using archival resources, Fogarty brings to life the events and characters that comprise the Church’s colorful and often tur...
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    214,79 €

  • The Great Exhibition of 1851
    Louise Purbrick
    This collection of essays exposes how meaning has been produced around the Great Exhibition. Critics and historians of art, culture, design and literature have been brought together to examine the objects, the images, the documents and the fictions of 1851. ...
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    29,79 €

  • Outer Edge of Ulster
    Hugh Dorian
    Hugh Dorian was born in poverty in rural Donegal in 1834. He survived Ireland’s Great Famine, only to squander uncommon opportunities for self-advancement. Having lost his job and clashed with priests and policemen, he moved to the city of Derry but never slipped the shadow of trouble. Three of his children died from disease and his wife fell drunk into the River Foyle and drow...
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    34,87 €

  • October 16, 1943/Eight Jews
    Giacomo Debenedetti
    For more than fifty years, Giacomo Debenedetti’s October 16, 1943 has been considered one of the best and most accurate accounts of the shockingly brief and efficient roundup of more than one thousand Roman Jews from the oldest Jewish community in Europe for the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Completed a year after the event, Debenedetti’s intimate details and vivid glimpses into t...
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    33,21 €

  • Englishness Identified ’ Manners and Character 1650-1850 ’
    Paul Langford
    Between 1650 and 1850 perceptions of the English were transformed, as a nation of supposed barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers evolved into a world power of political maturity, imperial grandeur, and industrial might. Englishness Identified traces the evolution of the so-called English national character through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and relates ...
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    74,22 €

  • Reclaiming Heimat
    Jacqueline Vansant
    In Reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reéimigrés—Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna Lachs, Franziska Tausig, Hilde Spiel, and Elisabeth Freundlich—who provide moving  accounts of the profound loss of Heimat (home/homeland) and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home. A disparate group with ...
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    58,12 €

  • A History of the African-Olmecs
    Paul Alfred Barton
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    23,21 €

  • Power
    Dr. Ruth Westheimer / DrRuth Westheimer / Ruth KWestheimer
    Sexuality expert Dr. Ruth discusses famous and infamous couplings from the Samson and Delilah to JFK and Jackie O., using these relationships to illustrate broader themes concerning desire and ambition. ...
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    21,20 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture
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    45,16 €

  • Esau’s Tears
    Albert S. Lindemann / Albert SLindemann
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    38,96 €

  • Ignaz Maybaum
    Nicholas de Lange
    'This well-put-together anthology contains a lot of interesting material, especially in the interfaith section.' - Jewish Chronicle '... a useful tool for students and lecturers in the field of Jewish Studies and interreligious dialogue accessing the work of Maybaum which is otherwise difficult to locate.' - Reviews in Religion and Theology Ignaz Maybaum (1897-1976) is widely...
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    36,93 €

  • East and West
    Rene Guenon / Martin Lings
    This book investigates differences between East and West in connection with the preservation of traditional principles, with a special view to envisioning how such differences affect the possibilities for the restitution of such principles in each domain. Special attention is given to various aberrant ’spiritualities’ in the West, and how they might be overcome by reference to ...
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    19,98 €

  • Judaism within Modernity
    Michael A. Meyer
    Judaism within Modernity begins with an exploration of Jewish historiography and the problems of periodization in modern Jewish history. In these beginning essays we see the range of Meyer's thinking about what constitutes modernization and how to determine its beginning. He discusses the role of history in defining identity among Jews and suggests that finding an adequate ...
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    51,30 €

  • Cooking Lessons
    Meatloaf, fried chicken, Jell-O, cake-because foods are so very common, we rarely think about them much in depth. The authors of Cooking Lessons however, believe that food is deserving of our critical scrutiny and that such analysis yields many important lessons about American society and its values. This book explores the relationship between food and gender. Contributors draw...
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    62,77 €


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