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Offence: The Hindu Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497385, Seagull Books, November 2009
102 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm, 6 halftones
To many outside India, Hinduism is envisioned as the foundation of an ideal, all-embracing society. Yet this is far from the truth. Though historically the practice of Hinduism does promote the idea of an inclusive and tolerant way of life, in the pa...
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£15,00
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Rebels, Wives, Saints Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times
ISBN: HB: 9781906497293, Seagull Books, October 2009
356 pp., 21.8x14.5 cm
In "Rebels, Wives, Saints", acclaimed scholar Tanika Sarkar continues her revolutionary scholarship on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. The colonial universe Sarkar describes in "Rebels, Wives, Saints" centers around symbols of wom...
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£22,00
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Pick of the Bunch The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers
ISBN: HB: 9781851243037, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2009
224 pp., 19.4x19.4 cm, 70 colour illus.
The list of favorite flowers has remained remarkably constant over the centuries. From late-sixteenth, early seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish flower-pieces we can see what were considered desirable at that time: the rose, iris, carnation and lil...
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£10,00
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Offence: The Jewish Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497392, Seagull Books, September 2009
102 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm, 6 halftones
Part of an ongoing series published in cooperation with the "Index on Censorship" that deals with religion and free expression, "The Jewish Case" is distinctive in several ways. To begin with, even calling Judaism a religion is problematic. The bread...
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Stockholm A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955528, Signal Books, August 2009
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Situated on Lake Malaren on one of the world's most beautiful harbours, Stockholm has set the benchmark for civilized city-living since the time of the Vikings. Its medieval regal period saw the Vasa dynasty turn a small town i...
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£12,00
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Andes A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955542, Signal Books, July 2009
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Andes form the backbone of South America. Irradiating from Cuzco the symbolic "navel" of the indigenous world the mountain range was home to an extraordinary theocratic empire and civilization, the Incas, who built stone te...
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£12,00
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French Riviera A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955580, Signal Books, June 2009
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! We all have our image of the French Riviera: the azure blue of the sea and the swimming pools; the dark green of the pines and the swaying palms; the yachts and the sports cars on the Corniche roads; the hovering croupiers raki...
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£12,00
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West Country A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955610, Signal Books, May 2009
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The English West Country is a land of exceptional landscapes: many miles of wild, unspoilt coastline and vast expanses of wild moorland; great cities such as Exeter, Plymouth, Bath and Bristol; and market towns, villages and ha...
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Offence: The Christian Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497040, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm
During the cold-war years, Western Christians basked in a sense that they were living on the right side of the ideological divide, harboring humane values, freedom, democracy and the right to irrationality, belief and non-belief. The atheist Communis...
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£15,00
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Offence: The Muslim Case
ISBN: HB: 9781906497033, Seagull Books, March 2009
112 pp., 18.3x11.4 cm
In recent years, countless politicians and commentators have been addressing the Quran in an attempt to understand the rise of Muslim extremist ideology. They have missed the point: the most significant factor in this phenomenon is to be found within...
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