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Paperback. A memoir of home, nature, and change in the American West, Light in the Trees makes cultural and environmental topics personal through a narrator's travels between past and present, rural and urban. Growing up on a mountain foothill in western Washington, Gail Folkins offers a small-town viewpoint of the Pacific Northwest. Series: Voice in the American West. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; BM; RN; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896729520
ISBN
9780896729520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.64

Paperback. An innovative and unique study exploring why many readers of Sylvia Plath become so attached to her as a cultural figure. By looking at first encounters with Plath's work through to pilgrimages that they make to places where Plath lived, this study explores why readers become so haunted by Plath. Num Pages: 176 pages, 13 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781555477
ISBN
9781781555477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.81

Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGXA; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Archetype United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901383324
ISBN
9781901383324
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 31.72

Paperback. That Gad Beck, a gay Jew in the Berlin of Nazi Germany, lived through the Holocaust at all is amazing. His determination to keep loving, living and believing in every human possibility - even in the face of the unthinkably monstrous - makes this quite a different story of the Holocaust. Translator(s): Brown, Allison. Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies. Num Pages: 176 pages, 23 b&w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; BGA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSK2; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299165048
ISBN
9780299165048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.29

Hardcover. Luminous and revealing, a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father. Num Pages: 352 pages, 50 illlustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; BGFA; BM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780393239171
ISBN
9780393239171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.37

Paperback. Follows the author's journey through the places she has inhabited over the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with wooden spoon in hand. This is a story of food, purpose and family. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
16566th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099498339
ISBN
9780099498339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

paperback. Recovers one woman's compelling history through a modern-day family's adventures into realms of ultimately timeless experiences Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; BGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803236387
ISBN
9780803236387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.66

Paperback. How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? What is it like to cut into someone else's body? What is it like to stand by, powerless, while someone dies because of the incompetence of your seniors? This account illuminates scenes of life and death. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BM; MN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520696
ISBN
9780099520696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Hardback. Albert Finney was a Salford-born, homework-hating bookie's son who broke the social barriers of British film. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white plates. BIC Classification: ANB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 294 x 30. Weight in Grams: 618.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750978866
ISBN
9780750978866
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.53

Paperback. Features Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was twenty-three, a young man experimenting with his writing when this mother asked him to come back with her to the village of his grandparents. In this memoir, he recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241968772
ISBN
9780241968772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Translator(s): Zatz, Asa. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; BGH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590173404
ISBN
9781590173404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.46

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Mercier Press
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KMK0008319
ISBN
9781856355001
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Mercier Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KLN0017811
ISBN
9781856355001
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Mercier Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KLN0017810
ISBN
9781856355001
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Mercier Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KNW0008578
ISBN
9781856355001
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Translator(s): Underwood, J. A. Num Pages: 320 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AVH; AVRG; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 33. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714527680
ISBN
9780714527680
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.30

Paperback. A biography that offers a fresh portrait of Anne Boleyn, one of England's most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, it reconsiders Boleyn's girlhood, her experience at the French court, the nature of her relationship with Henry, and the authenticity of her evangelical sympathies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16 black-&-white illustrations + 8pp section. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300170894
ISBN
9780300170894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 158.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872205246
ISBN
9780872205246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.94

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
Anniversary Edition
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221100
ISBN
9780253221100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.97

Paperback. What does a Bishop, having declared himself a pacifist, do when his country goes to war? Num Pages: 336 pages, 8pp b/w plate section. BIC Classification: BGX; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Lion Hudson
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745956534
ISBN
9780745956534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.42

Hardback. This volume faithfully reproduces the public correspondence between Mr. Thomas A. Murphy, former Board Chairman of General Motors Corporation, and two accounting leaders, during the latter two's term of service as Chair of the Financial Accounting Standards Board [FASB]. Editor(s): Previts, G.; Bricker, R.J. Series: Studies in the Development of Accounting Thought. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; KFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 509.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780762308347
ISBN
9780762308347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 139.86

paperback. The first volume in the new Deaf Lives series, Gina Oliva combines her personal experiences with a survey of deaf and hard of hearing former public school students to describe what it was like to be the only deaf pupil in the school. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; CFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9781563683008
ISBN
9781563683008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 23.82

Hardcover. Walter Scott. Green Cloth. Cloth is scuffed and dulled, but remains good. Nice copy.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Methuen
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1906
SKU
KTJ0000115
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 24.00

Paperback. Presents the life-affirming call to spiritual arms from world-renowned spiritual teacher. Part adventure narrative, part travelogue, part spiritual guide, this title is suffused with his perspective on life. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1FC; BM; HP; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141394497
ISBN
9780141394497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

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