Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
paperback. The revised and fully updated edition of the seminal, sweeping history of post-colonial Africa. Num Pages: 784 pages, 24 b-w plates. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 200 x 37. Weight in Grams: 590. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039468
- ISBN
- 9780857203885
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Gitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together her writing on Germany. It amounts to a portrait of the country and its people, how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectively and in specific instances - and how the burden of their guilt has altered the national identity. Num Pages: 416 pages, 8pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DN; HBJD; HBLW; JFC; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KSG0039467
- ISBN
- 9780140292633
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. The author travels across Russia, from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept villages, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man, the dissident Orthodox priest Father Dmitry. In this book, he tells the story of a nation: famine, war, the frozen wastes of the Gulag, the collapse of communism and now, a people seeking oblivion. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 230. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039382
- ISBN
- 9780141399492
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 x 16pp B&W plate section. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 332. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Paperbacks
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039381
- ISBN
- 9781408856529
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Part musical odyssey, part dazzling love story The Baroness traces Nica's extraordinary, thrilling journey - from England's stately homes to the battlefields of Africa, passing under the shadow of the Holocaust, and finally, to the creative ferment of New York's 1950s jazz scene. Num Pages: 320 pages, Integrated. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJ; AVGJ; BG; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039376
- ISBN
- 9781844086054
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Winner of the PEN Hessel-Tiltman prize for history, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, The Lunar Men captures the creation of the modern world with lucid intelligence, sympathy and wisdom. Num Pages: 608 pages, 16pp colour and 60 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; PDX; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 434. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039356
- ISBN
- 9780571216109
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Written by the author who was raised in a desperately poor village during the height of China's Cultural Revolution, this book tells the story of how he came to be Mao's last dancer. Num Pages: 448 pages, Black and white inset. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPL; ASD; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 304. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039337
- ISBN
- 9780141040226
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. At the end of the Second World War, some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic. This title presents the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts to bring them to justice, and what really happened to those that got away. Num Pages: 720 pages, 16pp. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 40. Weight in Grams: 488. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- SKU
- KSG0039322
- ISBN
- 9780553819397
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
Paperback. Examines the life of the androgynous nineteenth-century American actress and her work on the Anglo-American stage Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; AN; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472087495
- ISBN
- 9780472087495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.34
€ 49.34
paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The New Press United States
- Edition
- HIST
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781595582157
- ISBN
- 9781595582157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.86
€ 23.99
€ 22.86
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties: Roots; Serjeant Musg...
Wesker, Arnold, Bond, Edward, Orton, Joe, Ard...
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408105887
- ISBN
- 9781408105887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.94
€ 22.94
Paperback. Traversing four decades and three continents, this story of the Peace Corps and the people and politics behind it looks at American idealism at work amid the hard political realities of the second half of the 20th century. Num Pages: 318 pages, 23 halftones, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; GTJ; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFF; JKSN1; JPF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674003804
- ISBN
- 9780674003804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.72
€ 52.72
Alexander Pushkin's "Little Tragedies": The Poetics of Brevity (Public...
Svetlana . Ed(S): Evdokimova
paperback. Reclaiming a cornerstone of Pushkin's work, this volume offers a critical study of four of his compact plays, later known as "The Little Tragedies". It examines their historical roots and connective themes, offers close readings and tracks the transformation of the works into other genres. Editor(s): Evdokimova, Svetlana. Series: Publications of the Wisconsin Center for Pushkin Studies. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JH; DD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 32. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299190248
- ISBN
- 9780299190248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.56
€ 39.56
paperback. Jurgen Herbst's account of growing up in Nazi Germany from 1928 to 1948 is an understated tale of moral awakening. He illustrates how easy it was for a German boy without strong convictions to climb into a position of leadership in the Nazi Jungvolk. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299164140
- ISBN
- 9780299164140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.29
€ 19.99
€ 18.29
paperback. Mixing film history with social history, "Reel Patriotism" examines the role played by the American film industry during World War I and the effects of the industry's pragmatic patriotism after the war. It looks at such films as "Joan the Woman" and "Wings" and at the stars of the time. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Film. Num Pages: 224 pages, 22 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; 3JJG; APF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299154042
- ISBN
- 9780299154042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.43
€ 29.43
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Lyles, Kevin. Series: Warrior S. Num Pages: 64 pages, 53ill.(21col.). BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 185 x 5. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841768878
- ISBN
- 9781841768878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.46
€ 20.99
€ 17.46
Paperback. A controversial Marxist, Luxemburg here opposes the Bolsheviks' quest for power Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 155.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1961
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472060573
- ISBN
- 9780472060573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.97
€ 23.97
Paperback. Investigates the pervasive and persistent commitment to "rough justice" that characterized rural and working class areas of most of the United States in the late nineteenth century. This work examines the influence of race, gender, and class on understandings of criminal justice and shows how they varied across regions. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252074059
- ISBN
- 9780252074059
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.06
€ 31.06
paperback. Thousands of Irish peasants fled the country in the famine winter of 1847-48 to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic. This book tells of the lives of the emigrants on each stage of their journey to New York and offers insights into the character and mentality of the immigrants. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 pp plates. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBG; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFFC1; JFFN; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 231 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press USA
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039286
- ISBN
- 9780195106596
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Tomi Reichental, who lost 35 members of his family in the Holocaust and was the subject of the documentary "Till The Tenth Generation", gives his account of being imprisoned as a child at Belsen concentration camp. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVKS; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 412. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039274
- ISBN
- 9781847172273
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.47
€ 5.47
paperback. Presents stories which are based on the author's own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. This title describes a world where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; and, where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup. Translator(s): Kandel, Michael; Vedder, Barbara. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 156. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- KSG0039249
- ISBN
- 9780140186246
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Pan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTS0038704
- ISBN
- 9781509848621
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 10.38
€ 10.38
paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1HF; 3JF; BTP; HBJH; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0038821
- ISBN
- 9780571210725
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.43
€ 7.43
hardcover. Takes a comparative perspective on family life and childhood in the past half century in Russia and Eastern Europe, highlighting similarities and differences. Editor(s): Carlback, Helene; Gradskova, Yulia. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJPR; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 166 x 232 x 24. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Central European University Press Hungary
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9786155053573
- ISBN
- 9786155053573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.30
€ 202.30