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Autobiography: general

Paperback. Until the age of seven, Olga Barsony lived an idyllic life in Szarvas, a small town in Hungary, surrounded by her doting, observant Jewish family. In spring 1944, Olga & most of her family were interned in the Auspitz labour camp shortly after the Nazi occupation of Hungary. This Holocaust memoir expose the little-known Auspitz labour camp. Num Pages: 272 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552382202
ISBN
9781552382202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.59

Paperback. Hugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta's most prolific and influential public historians. This title recounts his varied careers as journalist, government publicity writer, popular historian, archivist and museum administrator, speaker, and lecturer. It offers an account of his childhood in Edmonton in the 1930's. Num Pages: 414 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Calgary Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552385227
ISBN
9781552385227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.25

Paperback. Series: Focus on the Family Books. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; HRLM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 173 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Edition
Unabridged
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589974340
ISBN
9781589974340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.71

Hardback. Renowned as a poet and critic, Arnold will be celebrated now as a letter writer. This volume begins in 1829 with an account of the Arnold children by their father, and closes in 1859, when already a poet and literary critic, Matthew Arnold returned to England after several months in Europe. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 600 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; BGA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813916514
ISBN
9780813916514
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.82

hardcover. This fifth volume of letters chronicles James's emergence into professional and personal maturity. The correspondence is dominated by letters to his wife, Alice, and they reflect difficult events of the period such as the death of his parents and the responsibility he took for heading the family. Editor(s): McDermott, John J.; Berkeley, Elizabeth M. Num Pages: 736 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
736
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813916880
ISBN
9780813916880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.21

hardcover. Volume 2 of this six volume set covers the years 1860-65, when Arnold emerged as a critic and went on to consolidate his reputation. His letters record his impressions of Europe on an official school study, with observations of nature within and nature without. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BGA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1134.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813917061
ISBN
9780813917061
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.47

hardcover. This seventh volume continues the series of William James's correspondence with family, friends, and colleagues that was begun in volume four. Consisting of some 488 letters, with an additional 510 calendared, it offers an account of the academic's correspondence for the years 1890 to 1894. Editor(s): Berkeley, Elizabeth M.; McDermott, John J. (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Texas A&M University, USA). Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGA; HPC; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 60. Weight in Grams: 1438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
832
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918204
ISBN
9780813918204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.04

paperback. A memoir of life on a backwoods Virginia farm in the first half of the 20th century. Virginia Bell Dabney recalls the hardships of the Depression, the fire that destroyed her home and how her mother struggled to make a life for her family, but also finds much to rejoice in her country childhood. Series: Virginia Bookshelf S. Num Pages: 283 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Univ PR of Virginia ed.
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918471
ISBN
9780813918471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.73

Hardback. Considers the southern graveyard as one of three sites of memory - the other two being the southern body and southern memoir. It shows how Lumpkin, Smith, and Murray contended through their autobiographies against Lost Cause versions of southern identity. Num Pages: 192 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; GTB; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920719
ISBN
9780813920719
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.77

paperback. Considers the southern graveyard as one of three sites of memory - the other two being the southern body and southern memoir. It shows how Lumpkin, Smith, and Murray contended through their autobiographies against Lost Cause versions of southern identity. Num Pages: 192 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; GTB; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920726
ISBN
9780813920726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.42

paperback. These papers from the poet and critic Randall Jarrell include letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, publication of which was withheld during Taylor's lifetime. These letters add a further dimension of friendship and intellect to this behind-the-scenes glimpse of American literary history. Editor(s): Wright, Stuart; Burt, Stephen. Num Pages: 576 pages, 22 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; BJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
expanded edition
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921532
ISBN
9780813921532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JJP; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925103
ISBN
9780813925103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.52

Hardback. A young girl sees her neighborhood transformed into a ghetto populated by skeletal figures both alive and dead. This work takes you on a journey of both loss and endurance, from a carefree adolescence in upper-middle class Warsaw to the horrors of the Final Solution. It illustrates the historical responsibilities of the survivors' descendants. Num Pages: 208 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925134
ISBN
9780813925134
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.61

hardcover. Widely debated in feminist, poststructuralist, and literary theory is the relationship between subjectivity and the body. This book states that yet, autobiographical criticism - an obvious place for testing this conceptual relationship - has lagged behind queries about the embodied self. It analyzes the genre of terminal illness autobiographies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 29 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; DSK; VFJB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780813926643
ISBN
9780813926643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.95

Paperback. Focused on the inside story of law reform, this book contains portraits of some figures, including Thurgood Marshall, William Kuntsler, and the black law professor Derrick Bell, as well as of movers and shakers such as the attorney C B King of Albany, Georgia, and Margaret Burnham. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGA; JPVH1; LAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926957
ISBN
9780813926957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.11

Hardback. Includes two transcriptions of Mary Estelle Elizabeth Cutts's manuscript as well as a study of Cutts's authorship and women's historical writing in the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Allgor, Catherine. Series: Jeffersonian America (Hardcover). Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGA; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813932989
ISBN
9780813932989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.09

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGA; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813933092
ISBN
9780813933092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.33

Paperback / so. "Never Ask Permission" is a daughter's honest portrait of a charismatic and difficult woman who broke the threads of convention. Also in Elisabeth Scott Bocock readers recognize the flawed but feisty, enduring character of Richmond. 31 illustrations. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BGA; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813933375
ISBN
9780813933375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.52

Hardback. Gun ownership has long been a hot-button topic in the United States, and the National Rifle Association has the reputation of being an organisation of primarily politically conservative members. Num Pages: 300 pages, 16 b notes; index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; WSXS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597976909
ISBN
9781597976909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.52

Hardback. Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; BGA; HBAH; HBTB; JMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403917652
ISBN
9781403917652
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

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