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Biography
paperback. Tie-in edition of Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPG; BM; HBTB; MQD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780753827871
- ISBN
- 9780753827871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.80
€ 11.99
€ 5.80
Paperback. The story of an ordinary couple with young children escaping from rat-race Britain to a smallholding in northern Spain, from financial security to fresh air but hard toil and no money.. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; BGA; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KLN0018145
- ISBN
- 9780751535488
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. This is an intellectual biography of Gabriel Bonnot de Mably (1709-85), who emerges as a central figure in the history of republican thought in the era of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804727891
- ISBN
- 9780804727891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.99
€ 83.99
Hardcover. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on dustwrapper but otherwise clean
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Merlin Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0005189
- ISBN
- 9781903582060
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Rising from a small-time vaudeville career in the States, Loie Fuller attained international celebrity as a dancer, inventor, and one of the first women filmmakers in the world. This book demonstrates that Fuller was an artist of great psychological, emotional, and sexual expressiveness whose work illuminates the centrality of dance to modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 44 halftones. 2 line illus. BIC Classification: APFB; ASD; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141091
- ISBN
- 9780691141091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.10
€ 38.99
€ 28.10
Hardcover. Good clean copy in dustwrapper with minor shelf wear and some edgewear to DW
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004121
- ISBN
- 9780716524786
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Documents the craft of organbuilder Gerhard Brunzema (1927-1992) and looks at how his instruments and his approach to organbuilding influenced music history. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 b&w photographs & 41 line drawings. BIC Classification: AVRG; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780810833661
- ISBN
- 9780810833661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.95
€ 124.95
Hardback. Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), Nathaniel Hawthorne's only son, lived a long and influential life marked by bad circumstances and worse choices. Raised among luminaries such as Thoreau, Emerson, and the Beecher family, Julian became a promising novelist in his twenties, but his writing soon devolved into mediocrity. Num Pages: 272 pages, 20 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038341
- ISBN
- 9780252038341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.98
€ 42.99
€ 42.98
Hardback. From an acclaimed World War II writer comes an incisive retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the Pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on the homefront. In the pantheon of great World War II conflicts, the battle for Saipan is often forgotten. Num Pages: 512 pages, 8 pages of b&w, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 42. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Presidio Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307461216
- ISBN
- 9780307461216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.53
€ 25.99
€ 19.53
Hardback. Offering an account on Mother Teresa, this work throws light on this remarkable and influential woman, exploring her childhood, her role in Balkan politics and attitude to the Balkan conflicts of the 1980s and 1990s. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGX; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415392464
- ISBN
- 9780415392464
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.86
€ 160.86
Paperback. Elizabeth Gilbert is in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, and they're trying for a baby - she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FKA; 1FMN; BGA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KAC0001475
- ISBN
- 9780747585664
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Num Pages: 496 pages, 32 b/w, 16 col plates (24pp), With index. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 146 x 32. Weight in Grams: 376. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOG0001239
- ISBN
- 9780006550167
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Gramsci developed Marx's ideas with an emphasis on culture rather than economics. This classic work reveals his thinking through letters to friends and family written whilst he was in prison. Translator(s): Henderson, Hamish. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JPFF; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 26. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745311302
- ISBN
- 9780745311302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 24.31
€ 35.99
€ 24.31
Hardcover. In good condition. A fine reading copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1966
- Publisher
- Macgibbon & Kee London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KRS0012425
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Series: Perspectives on Political Violence. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC; JFFE2; JFSJ1; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814729274
- ISBN
- 9780814729274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.21
€ 100.21
Paperback. Features letters that are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom the author was married. This book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 214 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 246. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KSS0006225
- ISBN
- 9780571194735
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. aeo The first book--length introduction to the work of Zygmunt Bauman -- one of the most influential authors in the postmodernity debate. aeo Offers a comprehensive overview and assessment of Baumana s work linking his current thinking with his early writings. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745618999
- ISBN
- 9780745618999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.98
€ 24.98
Paperback. In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. This book brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives. Editor(s): Burroway, Janet. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014104
- ISBN
- 9780226014104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.53
€ 23.99
€ 19.53
Paperback. Recounting the stories of seven Holocaust survivors who overcame obstacles to earn advanced degrees and become college and university professors, these accounts show that despite the worst of circumstances it is possible to heal with time. Each account describes the social background and circumstances that helped to shape the survivor's destiny. Num Pages: 320 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033651
- ISBN
- 9780268033651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.74
€ 33.99
€ 30.74
Paperback. This is the first misery memoir to be set in a naturist camp and it provides a chilling insight into the dangers that really lurk behind the 'peace and love' facade.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755318094
- ISBN
- 9780755318094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.18
€ 10.99
€ 9.18
Hardcover. Editor(s): Dowling, Timothy C. Num Pages: 351 pages, 61. BIC Classification: BG; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 807.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 351
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781851095759
- ISBN
- 9781851095759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.29
€ 78.29
Paperback. Fine copy with light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0014056
- ISBN
- 9780862787271
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
mass_market. A biography which describes an independent young woman who rejected society's traditional female role and overcame that stigma. Num Pages: 352 pages, 30 b&w photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; BG; TRPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597970952
- ISBN
- 9781597970952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.69
€ 12.69
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Hook, Adam. Series: Command. Num Pages: 64 pages, 25 b/w; 28 col. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 185 x 5. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781849087339
- ISBN
- 9781849087339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 6.23
€ 13.99
€ 6.23