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Paperback. These original interpretations of Renaissance culture focus on the English Renaissance as well as attending to work in a range of vernacular languages and on tne reception and transformation of the Greco-Roman literary, political and intellectual heritage. Series Editor(s): Hutson, Lorna. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360. English Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of Vunerability. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. 232 pages. These original interpretations of Renaissance culture focus on the English Renaissance as well as attending to work in a range of vernacular languages and on tne reception and transformation of the Greco-Roman literary, political and intellectual heritage. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 13. Weight: 360. Series Editor(s) :Hutson, Lorna.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748664870
ISBN
9780748664870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.14

Paperback. The West Indies Cricket Team, formed in 1884, made its first overseas tour to Canada and United States. The first match was played against the Montreal Cricket Club, 16-17 August 1886. This book speaks to the Canadian and American beginning of the West Indian cricket culture that emerged a century later as a powerful performance force of the game. Num Pages: 140 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KJW; 3JH; HBTB; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Canoe Press Jamaica
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9789768125866
ISBN
9789768125866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 41.60

Paperback. Splendid..the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. (..) Owen-Crocker has become the authority reconstructors call upon.. A wise and scholarly book. TOEBI Newsletter Num Pages: 428 pages, 263, 12 colour, 13 black and white, 238 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 172 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1092.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
428
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Revised and enlarged ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843835721
ISBN
9781843835721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.28

hardcover. An English translation of the "Tarikh al-Mustabsir", written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Mujawir. This text is an account of the western and southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula by a man from the east of the Islamic world, probably from Khurasan in Iran. Editor(s): Smith, Professor G. Rex. Series: Hakluyt Society Third Series. Num Pages: 362 pages, Includes 15 b&w illustrations, plans and maps. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 3H; HBJF1; HBLC; HBTB; WTL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 181 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1020.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780904180916
ISBN
9780904180916
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.54

hardcover. The impact of the Norman conquest of Sicily and Southern Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries upon the society of that region forms the central theme of this text. It looks at the Norman relations with the Byzantine world, and includes several studies on the church. Series: Variorum Collected Studies. Num Pages: 326 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HRAM9; HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 150. Weight in Grams: 595.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860788034
ISBN
9780860788034
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.50

Hardcover. The book examines the ways in which people of African descent have negotiated the challenges of building private life and community in Europe since the late 19th century, considering how their experiences involves crossing borders into and across a multinational European space and creating alliances across lines of language, ethnicity and colour. Editor(s): Rosenhaft, Eve; Aitken, Robbie. Series: Migrations and Identities. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 colour plates, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1H; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTP; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318474
ISBN
9781846318474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.66

Paperback. This book provides a lively study of the role that Australians and New Zealanders played in defining the British sporting concept of amateurism. In doing so, they contributed to understandings of wider British identity across the sporting world. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBJM; HBTB; HBTQ; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349485383
ISBN
9781349485383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.79

Hardcover. 276p. Hardback. D.W. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Pre
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1974
Edition
Large type / Large print
SKU
KON0572488
ISBN
9780809306817
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 8.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. "Cultural Creativity" is about the ways that ordinary people in town and country creatively define themselves, their families, and their social networks and how this can be recovered form surviving textual evidence. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349543281
ISBN
9781349543281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.46

Paperback. Competition, flexibility and profit are still the common currency, even at a time when Western countries have been driven off a cliff by these very values. But will it always be this way? This title argues for the predominance in any society of one of three broad value systems - that of the merchant; the soldier; and the sage. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFS; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241955215
ISBN
9780241955215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.42

Paperback. Editor(s): Starkey, David J.; Harlaftis, Gelina. Series: Research in Maritime History. Num Pages: 423 pages. BIC Classification: HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
International Maritime Economic History Association Canada
Number of pages
423
Condition
New
SKU
V9780968128848
ISBN
9780968128848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.31

Hardcover. Those travelling on the seas have always been vulnerable to the attacks of predators acting within or without the law. This book focuses on the character of pirate communities in the Caribbean, the East Indies and China, and on the scale and significance of privateering operations based in the principal European maritime states. Editor(s): Starkey, David J.; Van Heslinga, E.S. van Eyck; Moor, J. A. de. Series: Exeter Maritime Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, maps, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FPC; 1QSC; 3JF; 3JH; HBTM; JKV; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 232 x 8. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859894814
ISBN
9780859894814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBJH; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349274925
ISBN
9781349274925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.49

Hardback. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF; HBJH; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312223199
ISBN
9780312223199
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.41

Paperback. The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. Kennedy follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBJM; HBTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674503861
ISBN
9780674503861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.07

Paperback. This succinct and insightful account of decolonization analyses the tumultuous events that caused the shift from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War II. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 128 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW3; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 111. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199340491
ISBN
9780199340491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. The only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family. Num Pages: 190 pages, 32 illustrations, tables, map, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; BGR; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Sutton Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750911993
ISBN
9780750911993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.11

hardcover. Series: Palgrave Advances. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
2005th Edition
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403920416
ISBN
9781403920416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.78

Paperback. Series: St Antony's. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFF; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349168682
ISBN
9781349168682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 185.56

Paperback. A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; ACVC; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Phoenix
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753828656
ISBN
9780753828656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.83

Hardback. This cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in colonial Bengal shows that arranged marriage as it is practiced today is a modern practice from the colonial era. Num Pages: 360 pages, 42 photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKB; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
360
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822344629
ISBN
9780822344629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.19

Paperback. Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives. Editor(s): Hayden, Prof. Judy A. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; HBTB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349292714
ISBN
9781349292714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Paperback. The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the Holocaust Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 54. Weight in Grams: 832.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
896
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753824450
ISBN
9780753824450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.86

Hardcover. This volume is a comprehensive history of women's historical writing since the 16th century. It traces recurrent themes and the development of feminist ideas as they emerge through women's historical writing. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; HBAH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333726679
ISBN
9780333726679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.22
€ 133.89

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