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Doing
ISBN: HB: 9780857427847, Seagull Books, December 2020
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Doing", Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the most prominent and lucid articulators of contemporary French theory and philosophy, examines the precarious but urgent relationship between being and doing. His book is not so much a call to action as a summons...
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£14,99
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Land Like You
ISBN: HB: 9780857427885, Seagull Books, December 2020
340 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Cairo 1925, Haret al-Yahud, the old Jewish Quarter. Esther, a beautiful young woman believed to be possessed by demons, longs to give birth after seven blissful years of marriage. Her husband, blind since childhood, does not object when, in her effor...
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£21,99
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Menasseh ben Israel Rabbi of Amsterdam
ISBN: HB: 9780300224108, Yale University Press, August 2018
312 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the "Portuguese Nation" in Amsterdam, a community...
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£16,99
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Philo of Alexandria An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780300175233, Yale University Press, February 2018
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Philo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who left behind one of the richest bodies of work from antiquity, yet his personality and intellectual development have remained a riddle. Maren Niehoff presents the first biography of Philo, arguing that hi...
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£29,00
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Mokusei! A Love Story
ISBN: HB: 9780857424846, Seagull Books, October 2017
64 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Two men talk in Tokyo. One, a Belgian, is a diplomat. The other, Dutch, is a photographer. What, they wonder, is the real face of Japan? How can they get beyond the European idea of the nation and its people – with its exoticism – and see Japan as it...
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£12,99
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Cage in Search of a Bird
ISBN: HB: 9780857423757, Seagull Books, September 2016
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn't be better – a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends – until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently...
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£16,00
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Responsive Self Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
ISBN: HB: 9780300166361, Yale University Press, October 2015
200 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of...
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£43,00
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Attachment
ISBN: HB: 9780857422330, Seagull Books, April 2015
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
When Anna discovers a long letter that her mother Marie wrote, Marie has been dead for some time, and Anna is shocked to learn that her mother disappeared with a secret. The letter is addressed to Marie's first great love, a much older teacher who sh...
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£16,00
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Fly Away, Pigeon
ISBN: HB: 9780857422125, Seagull Books, November 2014
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Fly Away, Pigeon" tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland.  In this novel, Melinda Nadj Abonji interweaves two narrative s...
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£20,50
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We are the Roma! One Thousand Years of Discrimination
ISBN: PB: 9780857420381, Seagull Books, December 2013
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm
The Roma or Romani people, commonly called gypsies, comprise one of the largest ethnic minorities in the European Union, with significant populations in the Balkan Peninsula as well as Spain, France, Russia, and the Ukraine. Persecution of the Roma d...
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£7,00
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