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Paperback. A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGA; HBTV; JPVR; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Flamingo
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006548614
ISBN
9780006548614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.52

Paperback. Entertaining, popular but also serious account of pirates and pirate life by the acknowledged expert on the subject. Num Pages: 368 pages, Section: 16, B&W. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349113142
ISBN
9780349113142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.58

Hardback. Providing a picture of life along the Hudson River, this book includes facts and fables, legends and living realities. From revolutionary battles to the Hudson River School of Painting, it is the story of sloops and steamers, shad fishing and ice cutting, and the splendour of the Palisades. Num Pages: 272 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823218035
ISBN
9780823218035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTP; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816626939
ISBN
9780816626939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.11

Paperback. The book contains a stunning photographic survey of our pub heritage and lists most of the finest and interesting surviving examples. This new edition also explains the changes that have affected pubs, their culture and appearance during the past seven years. Num Pages: 212 pages, 300. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AMG; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 242 x 14. Weight in Grams: 786.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
English Heritage United Kingdom
Edition
2nd New edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848020856
ISBN
9781848020856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.80

Hardback. The entire story of Qaddafi's corrupt and repressive regime, the details of its downfall, and what Libya's future may hold in store Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBL; 3JJP; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 668.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300139327
ISBN
9780300139327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.07

Paperback. Looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. This book shows how it raised incomes, improved literacy and offered exciting opportunities for political action. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16-page section of black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; BK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300205251
ISBN
9780300205251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.55

Hardback. Concentrating on ideology and cultural values, this text explores the motivations that caused Northerners to fight America's Civil War. The book addresses the intellectual and social elites of Northern society, but also assesses the opinions of the common man on the subject and ideology of war. Series: North's Civil War S. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 16. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823217984
ISBN
9780823217984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.52

Hardcover. Series: American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226307282
ISBN
9780226307282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.58

Paperback. At midnight on 14 August 1947, Great Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began, as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled south, and Britain's role as an imperial power came to an end. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241950401
ISBN
9780241950401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.66

Hardback. Victorian Britain is often considered as the high point of 'laissez-faire', the place and the time when people were most 'free' to make their own lives without the aid or interference of the State. This book, by historians of state and society, asks to what extent that was true and, to the extent that it was, how it worked. Editor(s): Mandler, Peter. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199271337
ISBN
9780199271337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 258.01

Paperback. This analysis of the failure of efforts to achieve liberal reform in Egypt following its independence from Great Britain in 1922 has implications for modern-day nation-building efforts in the Mideast. Series: Politics, History, & Culture. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJG; HBJH; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 11. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338383
ISBN
9780822338383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.93

Paperback. Shedding light on a fundamental tension in liberal theory, this book reaches beyond post-colonial studies to revise the reader's conception of Britain's 19th-century grand liberal tradition and the conception of experience with which it is associated. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; JPA; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 232 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226518824
ISBN
9780226518824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.72

Hardback. In a work based on new archival, press, and literary sources, the author revises the picture of German imperialism as being the brainchild of a Machiavellian Bismarck or the "conservative revolutionaries" of the twentieth century. Instead, Fitzpatrick argues for the liberal origins of German imperialism.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 237 pages, 8 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HBTQ; JPFN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845455200
ISBN
9781845455200
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.80

Paperback. An important contribution to Indian ethnohistory and to the literature of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Num Pages: 310 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBTB; JFSL9; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Second Edition, Bicentennial
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803289901
ISBN
9780803289901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.47

Paperback. Levitation tells the peculiar story of those who have dreamed, believed or practiced levitation through history, whether they were successful or not. Num Pages: 272 pages, 100 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; VXP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 156. .
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780237374
ISBN
9781780237374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.57

Paperback. A readable, popular history of package holidays from the 1950s to the present day. Num Pages: 240 pages, 70. BIC Classification: HBTB; KNSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445647845
ISBN
9781445647845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.31

Paperback. Jennifer Worth's bestselling books not only inspired the BBC's CALL THE MIDWIFE, but also a deluge of letters as readers shared their own stories. Also includes previously unpublished photos and journal entries by Jennifer, along with a foreword by Miranda Hart and an introduction by the Worth family. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPG; BJ; BM; HBTB; MQD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780224640
ISBN
9781780224640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.62

Paperback. Editor(s): Carretta, Vincent. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811960
ISBN
9781554811960
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.45

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3J; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691645759
ISBN
9780691645759
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.33

Paperback. Elinore Pruitt Stewart, a widow and mother who washed clothes for a living in Denver, planned to work as a housekeeper for some rancher while learning all she would need to know about homesteading a place for herself. This title presents letters written from time of her arrival until 1913. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780803251939
ISBN
9780803251939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.93

Hardcover. Makes the social practice and the existing textual specimens of personal Chinese letter-writing fully visible for the first time Num Pages: 268 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JB; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 531.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295992778
ISBN
9780295992778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.07

Paperback. Makes the social practice and the existing textual specimens of personal Chinese letter-writing fully visible for the first time Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JB; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295992785
ISBN
9780295992785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.05

Paperback. Editor(s): Romani, Gabriella. Series: Texts and Translations. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The Modern Language Association of America
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873529358
ISBN
9780873529358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.20

Paperback. Translator(s): Webster, Brenda; Romani, Gabriella. Series: MLA Texts & Translations (Paperback). Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The Modern Language Association of America
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873529365
ISBN
9780873529365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.43

Hardcover. On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; he's reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone in the country was invited to take a moment and write that letter. A selection of those letters are published here, in a new kind of war memorial - one made only of words. Editor(s): Pullinger, Kate; Bartlett, Neil. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFC; 3JJF; 3JMG; HBTD; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 344. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KTG0009802
ISBN
9780008116842
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Incontrovertible evidence of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and the state in dozens of murders in Northern Ireland. Num Pages: 418 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 32. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Mercier Press Cork
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781171882
ISBN
9781781171882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.44

Paperback. In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. This book provides a record of the place, of the people who shaped the land, and of the rhythm of their lives. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJG; AJCR; HBTB; JFSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188492
ISBN
9780141188492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.31

Hardback. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785334986
ISBN
9781785334986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJF1; HBJM; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Gefen Publishing House
Condition
New
SKU
V9789652298485
ISBN
9789652298485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.44

Paperback. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442630062
ISBN
9781442630062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 30 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 61 x 3. Weight in Grams: 48.
Publisher
Haymarket Books United States
Number of pages
30
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608462162
ISBN
9781608462162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.79

Paperback. A collection of 19 essays focusing on how various fields of study can open new perspectives on the Holocaust. Culture and politics in Germany after 1933 are examined, and the memorialization of those years, and the shocking denials of the Holocaust are addressed. Num Pages: 280 pages, 280. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 26. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810116665
ISBN
9780810116665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.66

Paperback. The Holocaust and justice: how can one link these terms? Is justice possible for crimes of such magnitude? Weighing these and other questions, a group of scholars attempt to untangle the complex and often contradictory relationship between the Holocaust and justice. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810119161
ISBN
9780810119161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.69

Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; PSVW7; WB; WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 151 x 34. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780465052745
ISBN
9780465052745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 22.99
€ 17.75

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253215307
ISBN
9780253215307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.65

Hardback. Less Rightly Said is a detailed study of polemical literature in sixteenth-century France that explores the role of offense ("scandal") in a religious and a rhetorical sense and traces the emergence of a new political genre through both canonical polemical works and popular satires and invectives. Num Pages: 304 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804762922
ISBN
9780804762922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.21

Hardback. Leprosy and colonialism investigates the history of leprosy in Suriname within the context of Dutch colonial power and racial conflict, from the plantation economy and the age of slavery to its legacy in the modern colonial state. Series: Social Histories of Medicine. Num Pages: 264 pages, 4 graphs, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSS; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTQ; MBX; MJCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526112996
ISBN
9781526112996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.67

Hardcover. A study of the French industrialist who from 1870 to 1914 advanced social Catholic and Christian democratic movements by improving factory conditions and empowering workers. Joan Coffey's book represents the first study of Leon Harmel in English. Series: Catholic Social Tradition. Num Pages: 360 pages, 7 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; BG; HBTB; HRCX6; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 671.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268033606
ISBN
9780268033606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.72

Hardback. This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy houses, or the endless bread queues. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509507986
ISBN
9781509507986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.83