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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Journal. 1851-1852
Thoreau, Henry David. Ed(S): Neufeldt, Leonar...
From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. This volume presents nearly eight hundred manuscript pages of this Journal. Editor(s): Neufeldt, Leonard N.; Simmons, Nancy Craig. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 800 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; BGA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 138 x 215 x 52. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691065359
- ISBN
- 9780691065359
Condition: New
€ 144.79€ 110.03
€ 144.79
€ 110.03
Kay Swift (1897-1993) was one of the few women composers active on Broadway in the first half of the 20th century. Vicki Ohl describes a remarkable life, which included being the first woman to write a Broadway musical and eloping to Oregon with a rodeo cowboy she met at the 1939 World's Fair. Num Pages: 288 pages, 36ill.21mus.exs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 27. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Publisher
- New Haven
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300102611
- ISBN
- 9780300102611
Condition: New
€ 59.34€ 47.09
€ 59.34
€ 47.09
Highlights Clinton Jencks's dramatic influence on the history of labour culture in the American Southwest through a lifetime devoted to progress and change for the social good. Series: Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252037559
- ISBN
- 9780252037559
Condition: New
€ 63.04
€ 63.04
Paperback. Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling real story.. Num Pages: 336 pages, 10 b/w, 40 col plates (24pp). BIC Classification: BGFA; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007229680
- ISBN
- 9780007229680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.64
€ 14.99
€ 10.64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848270602
- ISBN
- 9781848270602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.88
€ 20.99
€ 15.88
Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; BGH; HBTB; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Truman State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612481432
- ISBN
- 9781612481432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.51
€ 47.99
€ 37.51
Long before it became the slogan of the Obama campaign, Dr. Dorothy Ferebee (1898-1980) lived by the motto "Yes, We Can." An African American elite descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and possibly a white governor of Virginia, Ferebee was an obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington, D.C. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 35. Weight in Grams: 758.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612345055
- ISBN
- 9781612345055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.37
€ 41.37
Num Pages: 254 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781589880221
- ISBN
- 9781589880221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 23.86
€ 34.99
€ 23.86
Dimension: 163 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442650336
- ISBN
- 9781442650336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Scotland's Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; RGV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 232 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649286
- ISBN
- 9781442649286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.79
€ 75.79
In A Great Rural Sisterhood, Linda M. Ambrose uses a wealth of archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic to tell the story of Watt's remarkable life and the creation of the Associated Country Women of the World. Num Pages: 352 pages, 24. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BGH; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442647725
- ISBN
- 9781442647725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812241853
- ISBN
- 9780812241853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
* This is the first biography to be written about the life of Martha Freud, the wife of the father of psychoanalysis. * This is the first biography to be written about the life of Martha Freud, the wife of the father of psychoanalysis. * Fully illustrated with halftones of the Bernays and Freud Families. Translator(s): Glasgow, R.D.V. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 251 x 23. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633381
- ISBN
- 9780745633381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Drawing on a rich array of sources, including her father's striking account of his childhood in China, Tiger Writing not only illuminates Gish Jen's work but explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self--each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 208 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 111 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072831
- ISBN
- 9780674072831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252067211
- ISBN
- 9780252067211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
George Gershwin lived with purpose and gusto, but with melancholy as well, for he was unable to make a place for himself - no family of his own and no real home in music. This book presents the story of this legendary American composer. Num Pages: 216 pages, 33 photographs. BIC Classification: AVGC6; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252034442
- ISBN
- 9780252034442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.72
€ 33.72
- Publisher
- United States
- Number of pages
- 503
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612345772
- ISBN
- 9781612345772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.84
€ 42.99
€ 38.84
These memoirs cover all these facets of his remarkable career, as well as his law practice, his work on various commissions of inquiry, and his reflections on family, sport, and art. Series: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Num Pages: 640 pages, 56. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BG; LAT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1110.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 640
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442648302
- ISBN
- 9781442648302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.85
€ 52.85
The first book on the life and work of the pioneer of American cast-iron architecture. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMC; BG; TNC; TNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 211 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1060.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393730159
- ISBN
- 9780393730159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 35.24
€ 41.99
€ 35.24
How the son of an innkeeper with a flair for making money became the richest commoner in nineteenth-century England, and what he did with his extraordinary success Num Pages: 352 pages, 60 black-&-white + colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; BGB; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 35. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300112207
- ISBN
- 9780300112207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
A chilling wartime diary of the destruction of the Lithuanian/Polish Jews, recorded by a non-Jew Editor(s): Arad, Yitzhak. Translator(s): Weinbaum, Laurance. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUF; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300108538
- ISBN
- 9780300108538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.22€ 41.71
€ 52.22
€ 41.71
Paperback. This is an account of the life and times of Te Whiti o Rongomai set against the politics and Crown policies of the nineteenth century. It traces the forces that shaped his life's journey from Ngamotu, where he was born, to his settling at Parihaka and his evolving sense of the injustices and disempowerment Maori experienced and his response. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JH; BGH; HBJM; JFSL9; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Huia Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781775501954
- ISBN
- 9781775501954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 31.02
€ 46.99
€ 31.02
George Washington became president of the newly formed United States just as the French Revolution erupted in 1789, a moment that would pave the way for Napoleon and his eventual empire. In this momentous year, the Americans consolidated the gains of their rebellion, and the French embarked upon a more radical transformation of their own. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597972789
- ISBN
- 9781597972789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.72
€ 33.72
This collection of 171 letters, most never before published, finally makes the fascinating Shaw/Murray correspondence available. Editor(s): Carpenter, Charles A. Series: Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643826
- ISBN
- 9781442643826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61