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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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