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  • DICTIONARY OF JEWISH BIOGRAPHY

    COHN-SHERBOK , D.

    CONTINUUM PUB. CORP. (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-8264-6250-3
    • EAN: 9780826462503
    • Páginas: 384
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.71,70 €

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    From Abraham to Saul Bellow, from Moses Maimonides to Woody Allen, from the Baal Shem Tov to Albert Einstein, this comprehensive dictionary of Jewish biographies provides a first point of entry into the fascinating richness ...

  • DAILY LIFE OF THE JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

    ROTH, N.

    GREENWOOD PUBLISHING GROUP (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-313-32865-7
    • EAN: 9780313328657
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.66,00 €

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    Though certainly not untouched by tragedy, the historical period of the middle ages was a dynamic and prosperous time for Jewish civilization; for despite the mass expulsions and periodic attacks that the Jews of the ...

  • QUAKERS, JEWS, AND SCIENCE : RELIGIOUS RESPONSES TO MODERNITY AND THE SCIENCES IN BRITAIN, 1650-1900

    CANTOR, G

    OXFORD U. P. (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-19-927668-4
    • EAN: 9780199276684
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.102,42 €

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    How do science and religion interact? This study examines the ways in which two minorities in Britain - the Quaker and Anglo-Jewish communities - engaged with science. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material, much ...

  • JEWISH LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

    ABRAHAMS, I

    KEGAN PAUL (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7103-1173-3
    • EAN: 9780710311733
    • Páginas: 502
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.140,64 €

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    Jewish Life in the Middle Ages is a fascinating and well-known look at life in the middle ages for the Jewish community. The author also gives attention to how the European movements of the middle ...

  • THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN CULTURE

    DUPRÉ, LOUIS

    YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-300-11346-4
    • EAN: 9780300113464
    • Páginas: 416
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.24,00 €

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    An eminent scholar of modern culture argues that the Enlightenment'the importance of which has been vigorously debated in recent years'was a more complex phenomenon than either its detractors or advocates assume.

  • THE BUCCANEER EXPLORER. WILLIAM DAMPIER'S VOYAGES

    DAMPIER, W.

    BOYDELL & BREWER (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-8438-3141-9
    • EAN: 9781843831419
    • Páginas: 0
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.38,00 €

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    William Dampier [1652-1715] is the most remarkable seaman that England produced in the century and a half between Drake and Captain Cook. They each circumnavigated the world once; Dampier did so three times. He commanded ...

  • SYMBOLS OF JUDAISM

    OUAKNIN, M. A.

    ASSOULINE PARIS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-2-8432-3789-8
    • EAN: 9782843237898
    • Páginas: 120
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.101,37 €

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    This luxury volume is a beautiful and moving visual record of the ancient traditions that form the cornerstones of Jewish existence.
    Full-page images of precious religious artefacts such as the Holy Ark and the Sabbath ...

  • WHY AREN'T JEWISH WOMEN CIRCUMCISED? "GENDER AND COVENANT IN JUDAISM"

    COHEN, S

    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-520-21250-3
    • EAN: 9780520212503
    • Páginas: 327
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.61,00 €

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    Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of ...

  • LE CANTIQUE DES CANTIQUES. PAR KUPKA

    FRANTISEK, K.

    EDITIONS CERCLE D'ART (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-2-7022-0766-6
    • EAN: 9782702207666
    • Páginas: 143
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.49,00 €

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    Kupka a trouvé dans Le Cantique des cantiques une source d'inspiration qui ne tarira pas. Pendant plus d'un quart de siècle, de 1904 à 1931, reprenant sans cesse son ouvrage, il accomplit un travail admirable ...

  • JEWISH SLAVERY IN ANTIQUITY

    HEZSER, CATHERINE

    OXFORD U. P. (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-19-928086-5
    • EAN: 9780199280865
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.113,00 €

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    This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times. Against the traditional opinion that after the Babylonian Exile Jews refrained from employing slaves, Catherine Hezser shows that ...

  • HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY IN LATE ANTIQUITY

    MERRILLS, A. H.

    CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2005)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-521-84601-1
    • EAN: 9780521846011
    • Páginas: 434
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.95,33 €

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    The period from the fifth century to the eighth century witnessed massive political, social and religious change in Europe. Geographical and historical thought, long rooted to Roman ideologies, had to adopt the new perspectives of ...

  • TEXTILES IN THE PACIFIC, 1500-1900 Vol.12

    MA, DEBIN

    ASHGATE (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-4075-2
    • EAN: 9780754640752
    • Páginas: 382
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.103,00 €

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    Textiles in the Pacific, 1500-1900 brings together 13 articles which include both classics and lesser-known but important works related to the trade and production of textiles in the Pacific region, extending from the tip of ...

  • QUEENSHIP AND POLITICAL POWER IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN SPAIN

    EARENFIGHT, THERESA

    ASHGATE (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5074-4
    • EAN: 9780754650744
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.220,00 €

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    Preface: Part I The Practical Limits of Partnership: Unwilling partners: conflict and ambition in the marriage of Peter II of Aragon and Marie de Montpellier, Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch; The many roles of the medieval queen: some ...

  • BARBAROS SPANIARDS AND THEIR SAVAGES IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

    WEBER, D. J.

    YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-300-10501-8
    • EAN: 9780300105018
    • Páginas: 480
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.47,28 €

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    Two centuries after Cortes and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain's conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain's American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about ...

  • JUDAH HALEVI AND HIS CIRCLE OF HEBREW POETS IN GRANADA

    BRENER, A.

    BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-90-04-14709-6
    • EAN: 9789004147096
    • Páginas: 156
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.206,00 €

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    Perhaps the greatest Hebrew poet since biblical times, Judah Halevi (ca. 1075-1141) is best-known for his 'Songs of Zion,' written late in life. But when Halevi first appeared on the stage of history, he was ...

  • NELSON - THE NEW LETTERS

    WHITE, C.

    BOYDELL & BREWER (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-8438-3130-3
    • EAN: 9781843831303
    • Páginas: 592
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.51,22 €

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    Presents over 500 of the most important letters uncovered during the course of the epic Nelson Letters Project, a five year search of archives throughout the world, which in total unearthed some 1,200 previously unpublished ...

  • THE CRUSADES AND THE EXPANSION OF CATHOLIC CHRISTENDOM, 1000-1714

    FRANCE, J.

    ROUTLEDGE (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-415-37128-5
    • EAN: 9780415371285
    • Páginas: 352
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.38,00 €

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    The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom is a fascinating and accessible survey that places the medieval Crusades in their European context, and examines, for the first time, their impact on European expansion.

  • FRANCO'S JUSTICE : REPRESSION IN MADRID AFTER THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

    RUIZ, JULIUS

    OXFORD U. P. (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-19-928183-1
    • EAN: 9780199281831
    • Páginas: 280
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.110,30 €

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    Madrid became one of the key symbols of Republican resistance to General Franco during the Spanish Civil War following the Nationalists' failure to take the city in the winter of 1936-7. Yet despite the defiant ...

  • THE THIRD WAVE OF DEMOCRATIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA : ADVANCES AND SETBACKS

    MAINWARING , F.

    CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-521-61320-0
    • EAN: 9780521613200
    • Páginas: 432
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.33,00 €

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    The late twentieth century witnessed the birth of an impressive number of new democracies in Latin America. This wave of democratization since 1978 has been by far the broadest and most durable in the history ...

  • CONTEMPORARY PERUVIAN NARRATIVE AND POPULAR CULTURE

    RUZ, R.

    TAMESIS (2005)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-85566-110-3
    • EAN: 9781855661103
    • Páginas: 176
    • Fecha de edición: 2005

    pvp.82,00 €

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    This book provides the first look at the dynamic resurgence of Peruvian narrative since the late 1990s.
    Talk-show host Jaime Bayly's seven novels have scandalized Lima's society with their treatment of homosexuality and have ...