Memoirs
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Memoirs
Paperback. Offers a rare look at the lives of civilian prisoners and their captors in WWII-era Japan. This book tells of author's bittersweet return to a homeland torn apart by occupation and forced internments. It is a testament to the struggles, triumphs, and heartbreak of lives disrupted by war. Editor(s): Mason, Rachel. Num Pages: 180 pages, 40 photos, 2 maps, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBBWK; 3JJH; BM; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602232495
- ISBN
- 9781602232495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.04
€ 26.99
€ 22.04
Paperback. Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. Tracing nearly two decades of spiritual hopes and earthbound failures, this memoir is a portrait of a rapidly changing world in one of the most far-flung areas of the globe. Num Pages: 136 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; 3JJC; BM; HRCX7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 9. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602232112
- ISBN
- 9781602232112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.89
€ 29.89
Paperback. With this connection to thousands of years of fishing and gathering at its core, this title explores what it means to balance lives on two islands, living within both an ancient way of life and the modern world. It includes essays that integrate natural and island history with the author's experiences of fishing and family life. Series: Alaska Literary Series. Num Pages: 140 pages, 20 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWK; BM. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 9. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602231986
- ISBN
- 9781602231986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.57
€ 18.99
€ 17.57
Paperback. Collects twenty-three stories that show the evolution of the adventurer's work, from ducking avalanches near the Gulf of Alaska to searching for the most pristine tundra on the continent, and from writing haiku on Denali in the depth of winter to decrying oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Num Pages: 250 pages, 96 colour plates. BIC Classification: AJB; BM; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 254 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602231931
- ISBN
- 9781602231931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 34.21
€ 34.99
€ 34.21
Paperback. Geologist Jack Ives moved to Canada in 1954, and soon after he played an instrumental role in the establishment of the McGill Sub-Arctic Research Laboratory in central Labrador-Ungava. This title presents an account of his fifty-plus years living and working in the arctic. Num Pages: 200 pages, 16 colour plates, 52 halftones. BIC Classification: 1MTN; BM; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Alaska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602230774
- ISBN
- 9781602230774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 28.80
€ 34.99
€ 28.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Iowa Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587299063
- ISBN
- 9781587299063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.25
€ 26.99
€ 23.25
Paperback. Originally published: New York: W. Sloane Associates, c1952. Illustrator(s): Freund, Rudolf. Series Editor(s): Hampl, Patricia; Klaus, Carl H. Series: Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction. Num Pages: 278 pages, 33 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWZ; BM; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 104 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Iowa Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587299018
- ISBN
- 9781587299018
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.27
€ 26.27
Paperback. Weary from the journalistic treadmill of 'going from one assignment to the next, like an itinerant fieldworker moving to his harvests' and healing from a divorce, Douglas Bauer decided it was time to return to his hometown. This memoir is a picture of an adult experiencing one's childhood roots as a grown-up. Series: A Bur Oak Book. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNF; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Of Iowa Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781587296819
- ISBN
- 9781587296819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.81
€ 26.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; BM; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572338579
- ISBN
- 9781572338579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.11
€ 31.99
€ 27.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 347 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572336933
- ISBN
- 9781572336933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.68
€ 31.99
€ 27.68
Hardcover. Num Pages: 133 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BGA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572336650
- ISBN
- 9781572336650
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.30
€ 34.99
€ 29.30
Hardcover. Editor(s): Durham, Roger S; Carmichael, Professor Peter S. Series: Voices of the Civil War. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Univ Tennessee Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572332768
- ISBN
- 9781572332768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.45
€ 31.99
€ 27.45
Paperback. Explores the author's personal response to John Milton and "Paradise Lost", tracing the intersections between a seventeenth-century biblical epic and the routine joys and tragedies of domestic life in contemporary rural Maine. Num Pages: 144 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558497016
- ISBN
- 9781558497016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.20
€ 32.20
Paperback. Presents a heartwarming account of dynamic relationships and outcomes involving a therapist, his therapy animals, and his patients, gathered from almost two decades of ongoing practice. It is a narrative of Dr. Aubrey H. Fine's experiences and his growing respect for the power of the animals' effects on his patients and himself. Series: New Direction in the Human-Animal Bond. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: BM; JFFZ; MMH; WNG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557537669
- ISBN
- 9781557537669
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.42
€ 23.99
€ 21.42
Paperback. Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 345 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJG; BM; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557537492
- ISBN
- 9781557537492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.78
€ 42.78
Hardcover. Num Pages: 261 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; CBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557289889
- ISBN
- 9781557289889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 35.60
€ 41.99
€ 35.60
Paperback. Presents an account of a young Union soldier. This work tells of the battles he fought and the games he played, of his friends, fellow soldiers, and officers, and of the regiment's activities in Missouri and Arkansas, at Vicksburg, and in Louisiana and on the Texas Gulf Coast. Editor(s): Schultz, Robert G. Series Editor(s): Sutherland, Daniel E.; Parrish, T.Michael. Series: Civil War in the West. Num Pages: 400 pages, 40 photographs & images, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BM; HBJK; HBLW; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557289179
- ISBN
- 9781557289179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.76
€ 41.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BM; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557288219
- ISBN
- 9781557288219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.96
€ 26.96
Paperback. Num Pages: 215 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557288189
- ISBN
- 9781557288189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.88
€ 31.88
Paperback. This book is a poignant, intellectual autobiography of the Palestinian writer in pre-Saddam Baghdad. Translator(s): Boulatta, Issa J. Num Pages: 185 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; BM; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557288028
- ISBN
- 9781557288028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.15
€ 31.15