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Hardback. In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars - an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world. This work reveals how strategic decisions made by the family drove Santander's unprecedented rise to global prominence. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 line illus. 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBT; KFFK; KNST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691131252
ISBN
9780691131252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.63
€ 46.53

Paperback. Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians is an account of Clastres's first fieldwork in the early 1960s--an encounter with a small, unique, and now vanished Paraguayan tribe. Num Pages: 352 pages, 53. BIC Classification: 1KLSP; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Edition
New Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299786
ISBN
9780942299786
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.75

Hardcover. The laughter of delight has gone unheard in the Western tradition. This work brings new light to the notion, and has a consistent leitmotif: the delighted laughter of the matriarch Sarah in the book of Genesis, when she gives birth to her son Isaac. This laughter is "heard" through biblical commentaries and twentieth-century theorists of laughter. Num Pages: 129 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBLA; HPC; HRCF1; HRCG1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137373113
ISBN
9781137373113
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.54

Hardcover. Dustjacket worn, otherwise very good. some clippings inserted
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1956
Publisher
Hutchinson London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KTK0097898
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Describes the formation of a masculine ideology in the decades prior to the war, and shows how it thrived - on the job, and through union politics. This title provides a context for our ideas of postwar masculinity and whiteness and finally returns the men of the home front to our reckoning of the Greatest Generation and the New Deal era. Num Pages: 360 pages, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ; KNAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044194
ISBN
9780226044194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.63

Hardcover. Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. This title brings together contributions from leading international scholars who demonstrates the cultural and linguistic complexity of the field by reflecting on the institutional challenges to the practice of Iberian Studies. Editor(s): Resina, Joan Ramon. Series: Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 2ADP; 2ADS; DSB; HBJD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318337
ISBN
9781846318337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.27

Paperback. "This book illuminates the origins of the great European witch hunts by placing early witch trials in the comparative light of other criminal proceedings in Basel, Lucerne and Nuremberg. The study reveals that the increasingly harsh treatment was paralleled by mounting judicial severity in general, as well as by a keen interest in social control"-- Series: Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBL; HBTB; HRAC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349541058
ISBN
9781349541058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 175.99

Paperback. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and reporters that provide the largely absent Indonesian perspectives of the 1955 Bandung Conference and of Richard Wright's activities there, adding new depths to the understandings of the conference. It also includes a newly discovered lecture by Wright. Editor(s): Roberts, Brian Russell; Foulcher, Keith. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1KBB; DS; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 255 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360667
ISBN
9780822360667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.48

Hardback. Drawing on varied archaeological and archival sources, David B. Lurie highlights the diverse modes and uses of writing that coexisted in Japan between the first and eighth centuries. This book illuminates not only the textual practices of early Japanese civilization but also the comparative history of writing and literacy in the ancient world. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 524 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3F; CFC; CFLA; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
524
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674060654
ISBN
9780674060654
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.32
€ 52.13

Paperback. The story of the rise and fall of the gambling industry in Tijuana during the Jazz Age opens into a history of the development of that area and Southern California. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 408 pages, 78 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; KNSP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347026
ISBN
9780822347026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.65

Paperback. Shows that a nation's success largely depends on the way it manages its money. But where do money and politics meet? From 1700 to the present day, the author offers an analysis of the evolution of today's economic and political landscape. Num Pages: 576 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; KCBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 396. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0001990
ISBN
9780140293333
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780316159432
ISBN
9780316159432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.38

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580464147
ISBN
9781580464147
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.48

Hardcover. Good copy in clean dustwrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
Basic Books London
Edition
First Edition
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0225204
ISBN
9780465007622
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Country by country, historians follow the routes taken by Che Guevara on his two trips across Latin America in the early 1950s. Editor(s): Drinot, Paulo. Num Pages: 4 photos, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPG; BGH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822347675
ISBN
9780822347675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.54

Paperback. Editor(s): Morris, Lucy Leavenworth Wilder. Num Pages: 367 pages, illustrations, map on lining papers. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 34. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
367
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873511094
ISBN
9780873511094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 17.83

hardcover. Offers a new perspective on Byzantine imperial imagery, demonstrating the role foreign styles and iconography played in the visual articulation of imperial power. Num Pages: 288 pages, 71 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; ACK; AG; HBLA1; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 260 x 184 x 18. Weight in Grams: 766. Exotic Elements and the Imaging of Middle Byzantine Imperial Power, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries CE. 288 pages, 71 b/w illus. Offers a new perspective on Byzantine imperial imagery, demonstrating the role foreign styles and iconography played in the visual articulation of imperial power. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; ACK; AG; HBLA1; HBLC. Dimension: 260 x 184 x 18. Weight: 766.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107004771
ISBN
9781107004771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.56

Paperback. Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781618111579
ISBN
9781618111579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.79

Paperback. Spanish-Italian Relations and the Influence of the Major Powers examines complex relations between Spain and Italy, beginning in 1943 and continuing until 1957, contending that the relationship cannot be examined in isolation and must be understood in its broader context. Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JPA; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349496549
ISBN
9781349496549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. This book presents ten selections from the most important scholarship on the French Revolution over the past quarter century, introduced and contextualized for student readers. Editor(s): Schechter, Ronald. Series: Blackwell Essential Readings in History. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631212713
ISBN
9780631212713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.20

Paperback. With steady erudition and not infrequent irreverence, Stephanie Trigg ranges from medieval romance to Victorian caricature, from imperial politics to medievalism in contemporary culture, to write a strikingly original cultural history of the Order of the Garter. Num Pages: 336 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780812223415
ISBN
9780812223415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.82

Num Pages: 321 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 748.
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813119748
ISBN
9780813119748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.27

Paperback. Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c. 500 to c. 1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries. Editor(s): Stafford, Pauline. Series: Blackwell Companions to British History. Num Pages: 574 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3F; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 25. Weight in Grams: 870.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
572
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118425138
ISBN
9781118425138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.25

Paperback. Presents a German-to-English translation of a book that offers an introduction to the history of the crusades. With a chronological span ranging from the eleventh to the late fifteenth century, this book provides an overview of the crusade movement sing boxes, case studies, marginal directions and chronologies. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 11. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415359689
ISBN
9780415359689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.83

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