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paperback. Two thousand years ago, Madagascar was probably uninhabited. An island twice the size of Great Britain, it was home to unique species of flora and fauna that were undisturbed by humanity until the first navigators landed on its shores. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HSM; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781850659471
ISBN
9781850659471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.73

This book traces the beginnings and development of commercial poultry production on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore. Num Pages: 206 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTK; JFSL3; TVHP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761858768
ISBN
9780761858768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 107.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845197575
ISBN
9781845197575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.96

Hardcover. The story that inspired the major motion picture, Twelve Years a Slaveis a harrowing, vividly detailed, and utterly unforgettable account of slavery Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 213 x 27. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Edition
0037-
Condition
New
SKU
V9781476767345
ISBN
9781476767345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.41

Paperback. Twelve Years a Slave, soon to be a huge new Hollywood film, is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, enduring unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years later. A powerful and riveting condemnation of American slavery. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JH; BM; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hesperus Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843914716
ISBN
9781843914716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.78

Paperback. Translator(s): Bouis, Antonina W. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781400077861
ISBN
9781400077861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of grief -- of learning to live with grief -- that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSN; 3JMC; BG; HBJF; HBLX; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089079
ISBN
9781844089079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.68

Hardback. Num Pages: 250 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB; HRLM7; JFMX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253021243
ISBN
9780253021243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.05

Hardcover. The aborted coup in Turkey has fired up interest in a country which will play a critical geopolitical role in the wars of the Middle East. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JMG; BGH; HBJF1; JFSR2; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 25. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784538262
ISBN
9781784538262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 36.91

Hardback. Sonia Ryang casts new light on the study of North Korean culture and society by reading literary texts as sources of ethnographic data. Ryang focuses critical attention on three central themes--love, war, and self--that reflect the nearly complete overlap of the personal, social, and political realms in North Korean society. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 244 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 233 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674062474
ISBN
9780674062474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.20

Paperback. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801479632
ISBN
9780801479632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.60

Hardback. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801453601
ISBN
9780801453601
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.85

Hardback. A compilation of writings by this important Irish political activist. The volume includes a fascinating array of letters, political pamphlets, newspaper articles and poetry relating to key aspects of Irish and British events of the early twentieth century. Editor(s): Tiernan, Sonja. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLW; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719088742
ISBN
9780719088742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.94

paperback. A remarkable, controversial book about Germany's soldiers in the Second World War drawn from transcriptions of their secretly recorded conversations Num Pages: 448 pages, Integrated b-w. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Condition
New
SKU
9781849839495
ISBN
9781849839495
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.27

Hardcover. Presents forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of Georgia. Nearly three hundred stunning colour photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries. Num Pages: 432 pages, 286 colour and 18 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; AMN; HBJK; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 254 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820349350
ISBN
9780820349350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Hardcover. The first book in the English language to examine how the Buddha's nirvana was represented and received in the visual culture of China. Mining a selection of well-documented and well-preserved examples from the sixth to twelfth centuries, Lee offers a rea Num Pages: 372 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HRAX; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 203 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9789622091252
ISBN
9789622091252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.33

Hardback. The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices which were at odds with the normative world view, from the heretical and subversive to the marvellous and exotic Editor(s): Page, Sophie. Series: Neale UCL Studies in British History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719078354
ISBN
9780719078354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.61

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750970037
ISBN
9780750970037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.17

Hardback. Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691139845
ISBN
9780691139845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.38

Paperback. Introduces the homes that people fell in love with in the 1930s, and the fixtures and fittings that went in them. This book features illustrations and informative chapters on architectural styles, gardens, furnishings and technology in the home. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; AMX; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 149 x 6. Weight in Grams: 130. New.
Publisher
Shire Publications
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
9780747807117
ISBN
9780747807117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.89

Paperback. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of racialization in early America. Focusing on cultural cross-dressing from a wide range of sources, Sophie White shows that material culture-especially dress-was central to discourses about race, as colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 33 color, 17 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812223088
ISBN
9780812223088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.06

Paperback. Presents results of Danish field research archaeology in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean and research in this area by Danish as well as international scholars. Editor(s): Dietz, Soren; Isager, Signe. Series: Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens. Num Pages: 411 pages, b/w photos & tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 275 x 210 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1616.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
411
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772887227
ISBN
9788772887227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.36

Paperback. In this text based on research into primary historical records, the author tells his story both as a historian and practitioner of "chanoyu". Translator(s): Morris, V.Dixon. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFC; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824819903
ISBN
9780824819903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.74

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 24 black white integrated. BIC Classification: 1FBXK; HBJF1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 166 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780764337
ISBN
9781780764337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.32
€ 63.70