Biography: general
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Biography: general
Paperback. Father Joseph was an aspirant to sainthood and a practising mystic, yet his ruthless exercise of power succeeded in prolonging the unspeakable horrors of the Thirty Years War. This title explores how an intensely religious man could lead such a life and how he could reconcile the seemingly opposing moral systems of religion and politics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSK; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099477822
- ISBN
- 9780099477822
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780967967530
- ISBN
- 9780967967530
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Condition: New
€ 20.00€ 16.37
€ 20.00
€ 16.37
Hardback. A world-renowned classicist presents a thrilling revisionist biography of the Bible's most controversial figure. Translator(s): Carden, Jeremy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; BGH; HBJF1; HBLA; HRCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631492358
- ISBN
- 9781631492358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 23.02
€ 25.99
€ 23.02
Hardback. The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth-making in his own time and of movie-making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emerges here as the commander of an army, whose aim was to incite Italy to revolt against Rome and to strike at the very heart of the imperial system. Translator(s): Carden, Jeremy. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 218 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 123 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 218
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674057784
- ISBN
- 9780674057784
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.48
€ 21.99
€ 20.48
Hardback. Palmiro Togliatti could not have become leader of the Italian Communist Party at a more difficult time in the Party's history. This is the biography of this Communist politician and intellectual. It explores Togliatti's intellectual development, his achievements and his sometimes criminal mistakes as the leading member of the Comintern. Series: Communist Lives. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGH; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 724.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845117269
- ISBN
- 9781845117269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.03€ 135.20
€ 153.03
€ 135.20
hardcover. Editor(s): Carter, Alden R. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBWJ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780742570535
- ISBN
- 9780742570535
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Condition: New
€ 77.95
€ 77.95
Hardback. Series: Biografias De Grandes Lideres De Nuestros Tiempos. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGX; HRCX7. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Zondervan United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780829762051
- ISBN
- 9780829762051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.87
€ 14.87
Paperback. An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Num Pages: 392 pages, 51 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219807
- ISBN
- 9780300219807
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.36
€ 17.99
€ 14.36
Paperback. A volume of notes, impressions of travel, of friends, of public and private events - elicited by the author's reading. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 200. A Year of Favourite Books. 272 pages. A volume of notes, impressions of travel, of friends, of public and private events - elicited by the author's reading. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BG; DSB. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight: 194.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841958217
- ISBN
- 9781841958217
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.38
€ 14.99
€ 11.38
Paperback. Published for the first time in English, this is an account of Che Guevara's 1952 motorcycle tour of South America by his close friend and travelling companion, Alberto Granado. Translator(s): Alvarez de Toledo, Lucia. Num Pages: 240 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KLS; BGH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844134267
- ISBN
- 9781844134267
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 3 (English): The Swiss...
Albert; Anna Beck (Transl.) Einstein
paperback. Presents Einstein's writings for the two-year period starting in October 1909. This volume concludes with the report that Einstein, by then a full professor at the German-language university in Prague, gave to the original Solvay Congress, the first international meeting devoted to the problems of radiation and the quantum theory. Editor(s): Klein, Martin J. (Professor of History of Science, Yale University, USA); Kox, A. J.; Renn, Juergen; Schulmann, Robert. Translator(s): Beck, Anna. Series: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Num Pages: 447 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 3JJC; BGA; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 32. Weight in Grams: 885. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0021479
- ISBN
- 9780691102504
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 40.00
€ 40.00
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 4 (English): The Swiss...
Albert; Anna Beck (Transl.) Einstein
paperback. Presents Einstein's writings from the final period of his work in Switzerland. The material in this volume documents Einstein's search for a relativistic theory of gravitation, a search that ended in Berlin in the fall of 1915 with the completion of the general theory of relativity. Translator(s): Beck, Anna; Howard, Don. Series: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 3JJC; BGA; PHR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KMK0021478
- ISBN
- 9780691026107
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Condition: New
€ 50.00
€ 50.00
Paperback. This work paints a dark picture of Justice Holmes as a distasteful man who, among other things, espoused Social Darwinism, favoured eugenics, and as he himself acknowledged, came "devilish near to believing that might means right". Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; LAT; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226015217
- ISBN
- 9780226015217
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.29
€ 34.99
€ 27.29
Paperback. The classic account of Nazi Germany by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand man. Num Pages: 832 pages, 31. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 47. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- W&N
- Number of pages
- 832
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842127353
- ISBN
- 9781842127353
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Condition: New
€ 20.00€ 16.27
€ 20.00
€ 16.27
Paperback. This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the men who served in the army of Frederick the Great. Major engagements in the First and Second Silesian Wars (1740-1742 and 1744-1745) and The Seven Years' War (1756-1763) are all covered. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail. Series: Men-at-Arms. Num Pages: 48 pages, Ill.(some col.). BIC Classification: 3JF; BG; HBW; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 248 x 9. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Osprey Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850451511
- ISBN
- 9780850451511
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.39
€ 17.99
€ 16.39
Paperback. President Jimmy Carter, this edition features a new foreword by Lachlan Forrow, president of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship. Translator(s): Lemke, Antje Bultmann. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGHA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 60th Anniversary
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894121
- ISBN
- 9780801894121
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 29.75
€ 35.99
€ 29.75
Paperback. Moving from examinations of narratives about disability and illness, the stigmatizing things that healthcare providers unwittingly say to their patients, and communication problems in the intensive care unit, to more personal reflections on anger, isolation, and stories of tragedy, tis work also discusses disability in the workplace. Num Pages: 191 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFFG; JKS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 407. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566396769
- ISBN
- 9781566396769
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.73
€ 36.99
€ 33.73
paperback. The theories of Albert O. Hirschman have had a major influence on modern political economics. In this work, Hirschman casts an analytical eye on his own ideas, questioning and qualifying some of his propositions on social change and economic development. A brief autobiography is also included. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: BGB; KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674715585
- ISBN
- 9780674715585
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Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 40.27
€ 48.99
€ 40.27
Paperback. Set in the turbulent post-World War I period, this volume finds Einstein awaiting news of the 1919 British eclipse expedition to test the general relativistic prediction of the deflection of starlight by the sun. It reveals facets of Einstein as he constructively participated in German and European scientific, academic, and cultural life. Translator(s): Hentschel, Ann M. Series: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; PDX; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 190 x 21. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691121246
- ISBN
- 9780691121246
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Condition: New
€ 72.98€ 55.92
€ 72.98
€ 55.92
Paperback. Documents Albert Einstein's scientific activity: his concentration for years on the unfathomable problems of quanta and radiation, his knowledge of experimental physics, his many fruitful interactions with experimentalists, and his struggle to generalize the 1905 theory of relativity to include gravitation and accelerated frames of reference. Editor(s): Klein, Martin J. (Professor of History of Science, Yale University, USA); Kox, A. J.; Schulmann, Robert. Translator(s): Beck, Anna. Series: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Num Pages: 384 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 3JJC; BGA; PHR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000992
- ISBN
- 9780691000992
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.98€ 55.92
€ 72.98
€ 55.92