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The Consolation of Philosophy (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover): Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) (Hardcover)
Boethius
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
John Dee - The Life and Legacy of the English Occultist, Alchemist, and Philosopher Who Became Queen Elizabeth I's... John Dee - The Life and Legacy of the English Occultist, Alchemist, and Philosopher Who Became Queen Elizabeth I's Spiritual Advisor (Paperback)
Charles River Editors
R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
French Revolution - A Captivating Guide to the French Revolution, the Life of Marie Antoinette and the Impact Made by Napoleon... French Revolution - A Captivating Guide to the French Revolution, the Life of Marie Antoinette and the Impact Made by Napoleon Bonaparte (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R678 R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Analogy Of The Languages Of Southern Europe - Or, An Easy Method Of Learning, Singly Or Collectively, The Italian, Spanish,... Analogy Of The Languages Of Southern Europe - Or, An Easy Method Of Learning, Singly Or Collectively, The Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, And French Languages, By Means Of The Latin (Hardcover)
Victor H Manget
R832 Discovery Miles 8 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Describing the City, Describing the State - Representations of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance... Describing the City, Describing the State - Representations of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance (Hardcover)
Sandra Toffolo
R5,442 Discovery Miles 54 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Describing the City, Describing the State Sandra Toffolo presents a comprehensive analysis of descriptions of the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when the Venetian mainland state was being created. Working with an extensive variety of descriptions, the book demonstrates that no one narrative of Venice prevailed in the early modern European imagination, and that authors continuously adapted geographical descriptions to changing political circumstances. This in turn illustrates the importance of studying geographical representation and early modern state formation together. Moreover, it challenges the long-standing concept of the myth of Venice, by showing that Renaissance observers never saw the city of Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in a monolithic way.

The Book of Travels of a Doctor of Physic - Containing His Observations Made in Certain Portions of the Two Continents... The Book of Travels of a Doctor of Physic - Containing His Observations Made in Certain Portions of the Two Continents (Hardcover)
William Henry 1835-1917 Taylor
R923 Discovery Miles 9 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Letters From Aix-en-Provence 1960-61 - A Young Fulbright Scholar's Adventures in France & Abroad (Hardcover): Warren Zitlau Letters From Aix-en-Provence 1960-61 - A Young Fulbright Scholar's Adventures in France & Abroad (Hardcover)
Warren Zitlau
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Pedens of America; Being a Summary of the Peden, Alexander, Morton, Morrow Reunion 1899, and an Outline History of the... The Pedens of America; Being a Summary of the Peden, Alexander, Morton, Morrow Reunion 1899, and an Outline History of the Ancestry and Descendants of John Peden and Margaret McDill; Scotland, Ireland, America, 1768-1900 (Hardcover)
Eleanor M. Hewell
R889 Discovery Miles 8 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) (Hardcover): Sofia Zoitou Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) (Hardcover)
Sofia Zoitou
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In Staging Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections, devotional rituals, and sites invested with special meaning on Rhodes, during a time when the island became one of the most frequented ports of call for ships carrying pilgrims from Venice to the Holy Land. Scrutinizing late medieval travel reports by pilgrims from all over Europe along with extant historical, archaeological, visual, and material evidence, Sofia Zoitou traces the various forms of the Rhodian cultic sites' evolution and perception, ultimately considered as an overall artistic strategy for the staging of the sacred.

Ten Days that Shook the World (Hardcover): John Reed Ten Days that Shook the World (Hardcover)
John Reed
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Scottish Gaelic as a Specific Subject (Hardcover): The Highland Association Scottish Gaelic as a Specific Subject (Hardcover)
The Highland Association
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Espana: A Brief History of Spain (Paperback): Giles Tremlett Espana: A Brief History of Spain (Paperback)
Giles Tremlett
R371 R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Save R35 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles. 'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rule' Guardian 'Negotiates Spain's chaotic history with admirable clarity and style' The Times Spain's position on Europe's south-western corner has exposed it to cultural, political and actual winds blowing from all quadrants. Africa lies a mere nine miles to the south. The Mediterranean connects it to the civilizational currents of Phoenicians, Romans, Carthaginians, and Byzantines as well as the Arabic lands of the near east. Bronze Age migrants from the Russian steppe were amongst the first to arrive. They would be followed by Visigoths, Arabs, Napoleonic armies and many more invaders and immigrants. Circular winds and currents linked it to the American continent, allowing Spain to conquer and colonize much of it. As a result, Spain has developed a sort of hybrid vigour. Whenever it has tried to deny this inevitable heterogeneity, it has required superhuman effort to fashion a 'pure' national identity - which has proved impossible to maintain. In Espana, Giles Tremlett argues that, in fact, that lack of a homogenous identity is Spain's defining trait.

Nervous Fictions - Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience (Hardcover): Jess Keiser Nervous Fictions - Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience (Hardcover)
Jess Keiser
R2,477 Discovery Miles 24 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the late seventeenth century, a team of scientists managed to free, for the first time, the soft tissues of the brain and nerves from the hard casing of the skull. In doing so, they not only engendered modern neuroscience, and with it the promise of knowing the mind through empirical study of the brain; they also unleashed a host of questions, problems, paradoxes, and--strangest of all--literary forms that are still with us today. Nervous Fictions is the first account of early neuroscience and of the peculiar literary forms it produced. Challenging the divide between science and literature, philosophy and fiction, Jess Keiser draws attention to a distinctive, but so far unacknowledged, mode of writing evident in a host of late seventeenth and eighteenth-century texts: the nervous fiction. Apparent not just in scientific work, but also in poetry (Barker, Blackmore, Thomson), narrative (Sterne, Smollett, ""it-narratives""), philosophy (Hobbes, Cavendish, Locke), satire (Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot), and medicine (Mandeville, Boswell), nervous fictions dissect the brain through metaphor, personification, and other figurative language. Nervous fictions stage a central Enlightenment problematic: the clash between mind and body, between our introspective sense of self as beings endowed with thinking, sensing, believing, willing minds and the scientific study of our brains as simply complex physical systems.

I And The Other - A Wicked Inquiry (Hardcover): Joe Nalven I And The Other - A Wicked Inquiry (Hardcover)
Joe Nalven
R624 Discovery Miles 6 240 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Revolt in the Netherlands - The Rise of the House of Orange 1566-1609 (Hardcover): Kiel Price Revolt in the Netherlands - The Rise of the House of Orange 1566-1609 (Hardcover)
Kiel Price
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Spanish Brothers - A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover): Deborah Alcock The Spanish Brothers - A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
Deborah Alcock; Foreword by Steven R Martins
R955 R834 Discovery Miles 8 340 Save R121 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco - A Narrative of Exploration (Hardcover): Joseph Thomson Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco - A Narrative of Exploration (Hardcover)
Joseph Thomson
R1,117 Discovery Miles 11 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life & Times of Alexander Hamilton - Two Apples that Fell from the Same Tree (Hardcover): Robert Gary Dodds The Life & Times of Alexander Hamilton - Two Apples that Fell from the Same Tree (Hardcover)
Robert Gary Dodds
R1,178 R1,001 Discovery Miles 10 010 Save R177 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Henderson's Hand-Book of the Grasses of Great Britain and America (Hardcover): John Henderson Henderson's Hand-Book of the Grasses of Great Britain and America (Hardcover)
John Henderson
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Life in the Marshes of Schleswig-Holstein, Tr. From the German (Hardcover): Schleswig Holstein Life in the Marshes of Schleswig-Holstein, Tr. From the German (Hardcover)
Schleswig Holstein
R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
History of the German people at the close of the Middle Ages (Volume I) (Hardcover): Johannes Janssen, M.A. Mitchell History of the German people at the close of the Middle Ages (Volume I) (Hardcover)
Johannes Janssen, M.A. Mitchell
R919 R841 Discovery Miles 8 410 Save R78 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Return from Exile (Hardcover): Marie Laure Return from Exile (Hardcover)
Marie Laure
R783 R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Save R101 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Development Of Modern Europe; An Introduction To The Study Of Current History (Volume Ii) (Hardcover): James Harvey... The Development Of Modern Europe; An Introduction To The Study Of Current History (Volume Ii) (Hardcover)
James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard
R1,067 R967 Discovery Miles 9 670 Save R100 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
An Essay on the Causes of the Revolution and Civil Wars of Hayti, - Being a Sequel to the Political Remarks Upon Certain French... An Essay on the Causes of the Revolution and Civil Wars of Hayti, - Being a Sequel to the Political Remarks Upon Certain French Publications and Journals Concerning Hayti. (Hardcover)
Pompee-Valentin Baron De Vastey
R922 Discovery Miles 9 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anatomy of the Medical Image - Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today (Hardcover): Michael Hau,... Anatomy of the Medical Image - Knowledge Production and Transfiguration from the Renaissance to Today (Hardcover)
Michael Hau, Birgit Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, stef lenk, …
R4,314 Discovery Miles 43 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume addresses the interdependencies between visual technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the medical body. It explores the relationships between the imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of anatomy, to Foucault's "birth of the clinic" and the institutionalised construction of a "medical gaze"; from "visual" archives of madness, psychiatric art collections, the politicisation and economisation of the body, to the post-human in mass media representations. Contributions to this volume investigate medical bodies as historical, technological, and political constructs, constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures intersect. Contributors are: Axel Fliethmann, Michael Hau, Birgit Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, stef lenk, Joanna Madloch, Barry Murnane, Jill Redner, Claudia Stein, Elizabeth Stephens, Corinna Wagner, and Christiane Weller.

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