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Paperback. Under the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike that would take the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians. He thought he was doing the right thing. He thought he was protecting his men. Num Pages: 280 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; BM; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745635866
ISBN
9780745635866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.37

Hardback. We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon. So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life. Num Pages: 336 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636696
ISBN
9780745636696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.68

Hardback. * This is the autobiography of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the world's most famous gun, the AK-47. * Offers a fascinating history of the weapon's development and spread throughout the world, as well as a window into the turbulent history of Russian in the twentieth century. * Contains over 30 halftones. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 218 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 401.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636917
ISBN
9780745636917
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.82

paperback. * This is the autobiography of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the inventor of the world's most famous gun, the AK-47. * Offers a fascinating history of the weapon's development and spread throughout the world, as well as a window into the turbulent history of Russian in the twentieth century. * Contains over 30 halftones. Translator(s): Brown, Andrew. Num Pages: 202 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636924
ISBN
9780745636924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.77

Paperback. In this remarkable, up-to-date reconstruction of Castros life, Volker Skierka provides an account of the economic, social, and political history of Cuba since Castros childhood. He draws on a number of little-known sources, including material from the East German communist archives on Cuba, which were until recently inaccessible. Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Num Pages: 488 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745640815
ISBN
9780745640815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.98

Paperback. 'There is something absolute about the letters between you .. The letter is a form of communion of the soul-spirit - .. one that is faded & yet unimpeded, complete', wrote Martin Heidegger to his fiancee Elfride Petri shortly before their wedding. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745641362
ISBN
9780745641362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.48

Hardback. This is the first major biography of Max Weber to appear in more than 80 years. Radkau was able to make use of previously unavailable source material, including the extensive correspondence of Max Weber and that of his wife, Marianne Weber. Num Pages: 700 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGA; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 67. Weight in Grams: 1186.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
700
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745641478
ISBN
9780745641478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.64

Paperback. * * This is the first major biography of Max Weber to appear in more than 80 years. * Radkau was able to make use of previously unavailable source material, including the extensive correspondence of Max Weber and that of his wife, Marianne Weber. Num Pages: 700 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
700
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745641485
ISBN
9780745641485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.05

Hardback. This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz. Num Pages: 232 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JJH; BM; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745643830
ISBN
9780745643830
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.38
€ 48.66

Hardback. * A major new biography on one of the greatest artists of all time, Raphael Sanzio, written by a leading Renaissance expert. * Retraces Raphael s career by re-examining contemporary documents and accounts and interpreting the artist s works with the eye of an expert restorer. Translator(s): Byatt, Lucinda. Num Pages: 260 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: ACND; AFC; AGB; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 682.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644110
ISBN
9780745644110
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.01
€ 53.02

Hardback. n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller.

Much less well known is the fact that, up until 1979, Negri was a university professor teaching in Paris and Padova. Translator(s): Emery, Ed. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BJ; BM; JKVP; JPVH; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 538.

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644257
ISBN
9780745644257
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.64

Paperback. n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller.

Much less well known is the fact that, up until 1979, Negri was a university professor teaching in Paris and Padova. Translator(s): Emery, Ed. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BJ; BM; HPS; JPVH; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 406.

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644264
ISBN
9780745644264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.28

Hardback. Under the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike that would take the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians. He thought he was doing the right thing. He thought he was protecting his men. Num Pages: 260 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; BM; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745646725
ISBN
9780745646725
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.30

Hardback. Philippines is Helene Cixous's reverie or 'truedreaming' which intertwines Freud's uneasy views on telepathy,autobiographical memories conflating Algeria and Paris, childhoodand adult life, shared with her brother 'Pete', and literaryevocations from Proust and George du Maurier's forgotten novelPeter Ibbetson. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745648156
ISBN
9780745648156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.55

Hardback. Editor(s): Eberle, Henrik. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, map, ports. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD1; HBLW; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745648736
ISBN
9780745648736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.86

Hardback. * This book contains the previously unpublished correspondence between Jackson Pollock - the great American artist who revolutionized 20th century art - and the members of his family in the period between the late 1920s and the late 1940s. Num Pages: 252 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD; AFC; AGB; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745651552
ISBN
9780745651552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.30

Hardback. Four months after the end of the war, Hitler's personal physician Theo Morell stated to his fellow prisoner Karl Brandt: "In fact, Hitler was never sick. " Brandt, who had been responsible for the "euthanasia" killings and was thus deeply implicated in the crimes of the Nazi regime, disagreed. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, facsims., ports. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745652221
ISBN
9780745652221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.86

Hardback. * Carl Schmitt is widely recognized as one of the most important political theorists of the 20th century and his work has been hugely influential in many fields including politics and theology. Num Pages: 700 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HPCF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 63. Weight in Grams: 1258.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745652245
ISBN
9780745652245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.95

Hardcover. Twists and Turns is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "with love's force one hates. " And yet, "everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745663272
ISBN
9780745663272
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.38
€ 49.70

Paperback. Twists and Turns is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "with love's force one hates. " And yet, "everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745663289
ISBN
9780745663289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.34

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