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Paperback. With an introduction to the world of bells and bell-ringing, this book explains how bells are made and how a ringing installation works. It explains the nature of change ringing, which has mathematical as well as musical aspects. It provides insights into the ringing community, and more. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: AMN; AVRJ; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747814337
ISBN
9780747814337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.91

Paperback. Series: X-Planes. Num Pages: 80 pages, 30 b/w; 42 col. BIC Classification: HB; HBLW3; HBTW; JW; TRP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 184. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472819581
ISBN
9781472819581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. .
Publisher
Frith Book Company Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859373033
ISBN
9781859373033
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 215 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873515306
ISBN
9780873515306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 275 x 15. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295995571
ISBN
9780295995571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.02

Paperback. Investigates how Chinese immigrants to the United States transformed themselves into Chinese Americans during the period between 1911 and 1927. This study also documents the emergence of permanent Chinese American communities, or Chinatowns. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252073892
ISBN
9780252073892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.93

Hardback. , and Japan, but it looks at how Moscow, Hanoi, Pyongyang, Tirana, and Ulan Bator interacted with Beijing in their political economic relations. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJP; HBTW; JPS; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 38. Weight in Grams: 820.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415833
ISBN
9781421415833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.88

Paperback. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, this book offers a major new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in America, placing the organization in its context of class and gender as well as race and religion. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 pp halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; HBTV; JFFJ; JFSL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195098365
ISBN
9780195098365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.32

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 470 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBTB; HBWJ; JPVL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 828.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633770
ISBN
9780691633770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 215.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, B&W photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ASZH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 228 x 31. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629144962
ISBN
9781629144962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Condition
New
SKU
V9781492603054
ISBN
9781492603054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.67

Hardback. Behind Enemy Lines draws on personal testimonies, official records and film to explore the experiences of male and female clandestine agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second World War. Series: Cultural History of Modern War. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 black & white tables, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719075698
ISBN
9780719075698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.53

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Natural Heritage Books Canada
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897045176
ISBN
9781897045176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.70

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 857.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691649306
ISBN
9780691649306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 227.39

Paperback. Series: Beginnings. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HBTR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719078583
ISBN
9780719078583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.79

Hardcover. A fascinating study that examines Liverpool's mixed population and its approach to race relations, in order to provide historical context and perspective to debates about Britain's experience of empire in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319679
ISBN
9781846319679
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.00

Paperback. A fascinating study that examines Liverpool's mixed population and its approach to race relations, in order to provide historical context and perspective to debates about Britain's experience of empire in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 232 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380000
ISBN
9781781380000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.39

Paperback. Series: Morningside Books. Num Pages: 292 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HBJF; HBTV; JFS; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231076791
ISBN
9780231076791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.03

Paperback. From its earliest days under English rule, New York City had an unusually diverse ethnic makeup, with substantial numbers of Dutch, English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Jewish immigrants, as well as a large African-American population. This title paints a portrait of this society, exploring the meaning of ethnicity in early America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 halftones 31 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBTB; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691037875
ISBN
9780691037875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 88.53

Hardback. A study of the early Industrial Revolution in the English woollen cloth making industry. Num Pages: 340 pages, 10 half-tones, 11 tables, 8 line diagrams, bibliography, index, lists. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 670.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521390422
ISBN
9780521390422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, 25 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HBTB; JFSG; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823273539
ISBN
9780823273539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.34

Hardback. Num Pages: 218 pages, 25 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTD; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780823273522
ISBN
9780823273522
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.55

Paperback. Madame de Pompadour's comment, 'Apres moi, le deluge' (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe a different kind of selfish recklessness. This book examines these fears and the responses to them. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTV2; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143262
ISBN
9780691143262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.46

Hardcover. Brings to light the profound social, legal, and cultural changes that attended the growth of the erotica sector. This title includes readings of government and industry records, oral histories, and erotica industry's products uncover the roots of sexual marketplace and reveal the indelible ways in which sexual expression have become intertwined. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226325217
ISBN
9780226325217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 538 pages. BIC Classification: CB; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; HBW; JHBZ; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 993.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
538
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138270053
ISBN
9781138270053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.51

Paperback. Editor(s): Gems, Gerald R. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGS; HBTB; JFSL3; WSBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803266797
ISBN
9780803266797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.61

hardcover. This book is an anthology of essays by Yuji Ichioka, the foremost authority on Japanese American history, which studies Japanese American life and politics in the interwar years. Editor(s): Chang, Gordon G.; Azuma, Eiichiro; Dirlik, Arif. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751476
ISBN
9780804751476
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.20

Paperback. Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timeless, self-evident fact to which a particular culture reacts with some degree of tolerance or intolerance. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFM; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
49267th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226729893
ISBN
9780226729893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.76

Paperback. This volume of essays provides a portrait of antebellum slave life in the American South. Contributions from historians such as Drew Gilpin Faust, Charles Joyner and Theresa A. Singleton reveal the everyday horrors and inspiring stories of survival that characterized slave life. Editor(s): Campbell, Edward D.C.; Rice, Kym S.; Campbell Jr., Edward D.C. (Director, Archival and Information Services Division, Library of Virginia, Richmond, USA). Num Pages: 300 pages, 125 b&w illustrations, 25 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813913322
ISBN
9780813913322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.40

" Chronicles the early history of organized sports at UK, from the tenuous beginnings under student leadership, through the early scandals, financial instability, and clashes with administration, to the Purge of 1938 that paved the way for basketball's ascendancy." Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JNM; WSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813119915
ISBN
9780813119915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.33

Hardback. Nazis began detaining Jews in camps as soon as they came to power in 1933. Kim Wunschmann reveals the origin of these extralegal detention sites, the harsh treatment Jews received there, and the message the camps sent to Germans: that Jews were enemies of the state, dangerous to associate with and fair game for acts of intimidation and violence. Num Pages: 367 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 728.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674967595
ISBN
9780674967595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.91
€ 51.61

Paperback. Addressed to specialists and nonspecialists alike, this is an introduction to the Powhatans - the Native Americans of Virginia's coastal plains who played an integral part in the life of the Williamsburg and Jamestown settlements - in scenes that span 1100 years. Series: Native Peoples, Cultures and Places of the South-eastern United States S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 63 b&w photographs, 30 drawings, 7 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813028170
ISBN
9780813028170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.37

Paperback. In this enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States, Horn, herself a beekeeper, shows how the honey bee was one of the first symbols of colonization and how bees' societal structures have shaped our ideals about work, family, community, and leisure. Num Pages: 352 pages, 52 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFCA; WNCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813191638
ISBN
9780813191638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.54

Paperback. Looking at a time when beer was often a nutritional necessity, was sometimes used as medicine, could be flavored with everything from the bark of fir trees to thyme and fresh eggs, and was consumed by men, women, and children alike, this book presents a detailed history of the business, art, and governance of brewing. Num Pages: 344 pages, 23 illus. BIC Classification: HBT. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 167 x 24. Weight in Grams: 474.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812219999
ISBN
9780812219999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.06

Paperback. Series: Nitty Gritty Cookbooks. Num Pages: 96 pages, 30 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; WBV; WBXD2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 6. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589798854
ISBN
9781589798854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.65

Paperback. An informative and entertaining study of London's lunatic fringe, and how we have dealt with the mad among us from pre-history to the present day. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8pp b-w. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBTB; JKSM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847390004
ISBN
9781847390004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.25

Hardback. Explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. This title weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 color illus. 16 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSL; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691140315
ISBN
9780691140315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.01

Paperback. A colorful history of Chicago journalism in the nineteenth century Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JH; HBT; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252077852
ISBN
9780252077852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801473449
ISBN
9780801473449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.19

Hardcover. Focuses on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the antebellum South. This book reveals the peculiar strains of modern liberal-capitalist and conservative thought that permeated the culture of southern merchants. Series: New Directions in Southern History. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813124049
ISBN
9780813124049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.80