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Biography
hardcover. This study focuses on James Legge (1815-1897), one of the most important 19th-century figures in the cultural exchange between China and the West. The narrative illuminates the era in which Legge lived as well as the surroundings in which he worked. Num Pages: 810 pages, 38 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1FPC; BGH; GTB; HBJD1; HBLL; HRAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1421. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0037006
- ISBN
- 9780520215528
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.00
€ 15.00
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 22. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750962971
- ISBN
- 9780750962971
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.29
€ 21.99
€ 17.29
Paperback. More heart-warming tales of life as a vet from TV vet Luke Gamble, this time travelling farther afield from his West Country base to exotic locations around the world. 'Luke is a West Country treasure .. like Dr Dolittle but real!' - Martin Clunes Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BM; MZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- John Murray Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444721829
- ISBN
- 9781444721829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. This is the story of an atrocity on Achill Island in the west of Ireland in 1894. An English landowner, Agnes McDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home - Valley House - burnt. Agnes survived but was so disfigured she wore a veil in public for the rest of her life. Num Pages: 240 pages, Black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- The Collins Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848891470
- ISBN
- 9781848891470
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.51
€ 16.99
€ 14.51
Paperback. Translator(s): Felsen, Vivian. Num Pages: 212 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; BM; HBTB; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vehicule Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550654042
- ISBN
- 9781550654042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.41
€ 19.99
€ 18.41
Paperback. BIC Classification: BM; DNF; JFCV; WBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Greystone Books,Canada
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781771642743
- ISBN
- 9781771642743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.49
€ 16.49
paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BT; MBNH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy showing light age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Mercier Press Cork
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0025433
- ISBN
- 9781856354837
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction. Suspecting that it might be a long-lost Velazquez, he bought the picture and set out to discover its strange history - a quest that led from fame to ruin and exile. This book pays homage to the Spanish master Velazquez. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: AFC; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 239 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099587040
- ISBN
- 9780099587040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.81
€ 17.99
€ 12.81
paperback. This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experience colonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British naval officer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a Royal Navy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush. Series: Pioneers of British Columbia. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- UBC Press Canada
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774805735
- ISBN
- 9780774805735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.84
€ 46.84
Hardback. Offers the study of a largely ignored legacy. Scouring archives, discovering diaries, and memoirs in private houses and forgotten drawers, this title recovers the voices of the generation - bootblacks and poets, film directors and farmers, miners, anarchists, and seamstresses - compelled to tell their stories. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1KBB; BGA; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823226788
- ISBN
- 9780823226788
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.96
€ 110.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKP; 3JJP; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- Beacon Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780807080467
- ISBN
- 9780807080467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.50
€ 17.99
€ 16.50
Paperback. The incredible true story of living as a modern-day nomad. Editor(s): Roberts, Brian Owen. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 196 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753828670
- ISBN
- 9780753828670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.17
€ 17.99
€ 13.17
Paperback. Summoning the vanished world of Jewish livestock dealers in rural Germany, this is a picture of what it was like to live as a Jew in a small German town before and after the Nazis came to power. Hans Frankenthal tells his story the horrors of the Holocaust survived by one man, and its aftermath. Translator(s): Broadwin, John A. Series: Jewish Lives S. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJP; BGA; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810118874
- ISBN
- 9780810118874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.67
€ 27.67
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; DSB; JFFK; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231182089
- ISBN
- 9780231182089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.64
€ 33.99
€ 28.64
Hardcover. The incredible story of German goalkeeper Lutz Pfannenstiel - the most interesting footballer you've never heard of. A massive bestseller in Germany, this astonishing, fascinating and at times hilarious book relates a football career in which Lutz travelled the world, played for 23 teams on five continents and lived life to the absolute full. Translator(s): Rockey, Matthew. Num Pages: 272 pages, Colour plate section. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGSA; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Vision Sports Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909534285
- ISBN
- 9781909534285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.99
€ 17.99
€ 13.99
Paperback. As the summer of 1914 drew to a close, it was difficult for a 16 year-old schoolboy to realize that the world for which he had been prepared at Clifton College was itself preparing for war. By 1916, he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery. This book gives human account of history. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 pp B & W photos; line drawings/maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; BGHA; BTM; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857501950
- ISBN
- 9780857501950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.81
€ 17.99
€ 12.81
Paperback. The riveting first-hand account of a young British civilian woman who volunteered to help rebuild Iraq immediately after the invasion in 2003, and soon found herself as a political advisor to the US military. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2 maps, 38 integrated photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; 3JMC; BM; HBWS5; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782392606
- ISBN
- 9781782392606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.88
€ 17.99
€ 12.88
Paperback. Since her suicide, fascination with the poet Sylvia Plath has never waned. Plath has been the subject of a novel ("Wintering", by Kate Moses), a feature film ("Sylvia", starring Gwyneth Paltrow), and a film documentary. This book provides an assessment of Plath's life and work, offering essays by leading critics and scholars. Editor(s): Helle, Anita. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 colour illustrations, 12 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472069279
- ISBN
- 9780472069279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.44
€ 38.44
Paperback. Sheila Tofield grew up in Rotherham, daughter of an uncaring mother who made her believe she was useless, stupid and - most painfully of all - unlovable. Her worst childhood fears where confirmed when, as a young woman, her fiancee left her without an explanation. This title tells her story about being a single mother in 1950s Britain. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405911344
- ISBN
- 9781405911344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.59
€ 13.99
€ 10.59
Paperback. Mackinnon recounts his own fascinating journey from north Wales to the Black Sea in a small Mirror dinghy. A marvelous madcap adventure, told with verve and humor by the indefatigable 'captain.' Num Pages: 356 pages, 60 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574091526
- ISBN
- 9781574091526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.80
€ 19.99
€ 15.80
Paperback. 192 pages, Illustrations, ports. It is 1963. South Africa is in crisis and the white state is under siege. On 19 August the dreaded Security Police swoop on Griggs bookstore in downtown Durban and arrest Eleanor, the daughter of the manageress. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGH. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 14. Weight: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Jacana Media
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781770098909
- ISBN
- 9781770098909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.05
€ 21.99
€ 20.05
paperback. Lenin the man has become part myth arising from the tumult of the Russian Revolution and part image controlled by leaders of the Soviet Union. This work seeks to correct that myth and revise that image, and contains long-concealed documents from the Russian archives. Editor(s): Pipes, Richard. Series: Annals of Communism. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- Later printing
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300076622
- ISBN
- 9780300076622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.41
€ 40.41
Paperback. The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; AVRL1; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409156550
- ISBN
- 9781409156550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.74
€ 19.99
€ 14.74
Hardcover. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; ACX; AMKH; BGF; BK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780500518663
- ISBN
- 9780500518663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.09
€ 26.99
€ 23.09