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Orientalism and Religion
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.95Orientalism and Religion offers us a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. Richard King examines the way in which notions such as mysticism, religion, Hinduism and Buddhism are taken for granted. He shows us how religion needs to be reinterpreted along the lines of cultural studies.... more...
Gutteridge and Megrah's Law of Bankers' Commercial Credits
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 370.00Presents a systematic study of the law of bankers' commercial credits. Bringing together materials which are to be found scattered throughout the various series of English law reports, this title presents a systematic study of the law relating to commercial credits as applied today. It also contains a detailed exposition of the ICC's Uniform Customs... more...
Carrion Colony
Allen & Unwin 2002; US$ 21.77With a nod of his head to Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, Richard King, winner of the 1995 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, writes with tongue-in-cheek to give us a boisterous novel of just one of the beginnings of white Australia. more...
That Sleep of Death
Dundurn 2002; US$ 6.99When bookstore owner Sam Wiseman finds the body of a professor, he is implicated in the murder and must discover the real killer to clear his name. more...
How Soon is Now?
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 21.86One of the most tangible aftershocks of Punk was its urgency to prompt individuals into action. Document your reality: do it yourself. From this, a generation of young men were inspired and, with often zero financial planning or business sense, in a bedroom, garage or shed, labels such as Factory, Rough Trade, Mute, 4AD, Beggars Banquet, Warp, Domino... more...
A Southern Renaissance
Oxford University Press 1982; US$ 34.99This perceptive study of a major cultural movement shows how Southern writers of 1930 t0 1955 tried to come to terms with Southern tradition, and discusses the resulting body of significant literature - fiction, poetry, memoirs, and historical writing. more...
Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom
Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 107.99The author attempts to delineate the important ideas that developed from the political experience of the US Civil Rights Movement. He argues that the Movement was not so much about ending segregation, as having blacks recognized as individuals whose sense of self-worth could be enhanced. more...
Common to Body and Soul
De Gruyter 2006; US$ 147.00The volume presents essays on the philosophical explanation of the relationship between body and soul in antiquity from the Presocratics to Galen, including papers on Parmenides on thinking (E. Hussey, R. Dilcher), Empedocles? Love (D. O?Brien), tripartition in Plato (T. Buchheim), Aristotle (C. Rapp, T. Johansen, P.-M. Morel), Peripatetics after Aristotle... more...
Aristotle and Plotinus on Memory
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotle?s On memory and recollectionand Plotinus? On perception and memory (IV 6); the latter also wrote at length about memory in his Problems connected with the soul (IV 3-4, esp. 3.25-4.6). Both authors treat memoryas a ?modest? faculty:they assume the existence of a persistent... more...
The Native American Mascot Controversy
Scarecrow Press 2010; US$ 49.99Sports mascots have been a tradition for decades. Along with the usual lions and tigers, many schools are represented by Native American images. Once considered a benign practice, numerous studies have proved just the opposite: that the use of Native American mascots in educational institutions has perpetuated a shameful history of racial insensitivity.... more...









