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Paperback. A portrait of the intimate way in which violence pulls lives apart, of an American family caught on the stage of Middle East politics, and of the moral choices required in seeking justice. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 202 pages, 17 illustrations, 2 maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JJPN; BM; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815609544
ISBN
9780815609544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.95

Hardback. The author of Beyond the Notes demonstrates how a working musician draws energy from the events of daily life, and sometimes seeks a refuge from them in music. Num Pages: 276 pages, 8, 8 black and white. BIC Classification: AVRG; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 29. Weight in Grams: 480. A Pianist's Yearbook. 276 pages, 8, 8 black and white. The author of Beyond the Notes demonstrates how a working musician draws energy from the events of daily life, and sometimes seeks a refuge from them in music. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVRG; BM. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 29. Weight: 494.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
276
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843835578
ISBN
9781843835578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.87

Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Bntam Edition
SKU
KKD0001275
ISBN
9780553405699
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Providing an insight into the mind of one of the leading intellectuals of the modern age, this title chronicles the cultural, moral, and political journeys of this renowned critic and artist at the height of her powers. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241954461
ISBN
9780241954461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. A selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) that takes us from early adolescence though to when Sontag was in her early thirties. It is an honest self-portrait which is also a revealing account of an artist and critic being born. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141045191
ISBN
9780141045191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. In 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott confronted defeat and death in the crippling subzero temperatures of Antarctica. This volume finishes the tale of Scott and his British expedition, depicting the staggering 900-mile trek to the South Pole and resolving the debate over the journey's failure. Num Pages: 416 pages, 77 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; BGH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300099218
ISBN
9780300099218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.59

Paperback. How did Tennessee become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? More than Petticoats: Remarkable Tennessee Women recognizes the women who shaped the "Volunteer State." Female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies and archival photographs and paintings. Series: More Than Petticoats Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BG; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 12.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762769810
ISBN
9780762769810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.15

"Women of Privilege" traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family whose neighbors were Vanderbilts, Delanos, and Roosevelts. Based on diaries and journals, and written by a family descendant, it combines biography and memoir with social history. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; JFSC; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897336802
ISBN
9780897336802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.06

Paperback. A poignant piece of self-revelation, sprinkled with some trenchant observations on the way the dead hand of history has weighed down the former Warsaw Pact countries Editor(s): Gilman, Sander L. Series: Texts and Contexts. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; BG; DSA; HBJD; HBLW3; JFFN; JPFC; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803292611
ISBN
9780803292611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.72

Hardback. A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irene Nemirovsky Num Pages: 376 pages, 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 692.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780300171969
ISBN
9780300171969
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 7.41

Paperback. These two memoirs provide windows into the Sumatran past, in particular, and the early 20th-century history of south-east Asia, in general. In reconstructing their own passage into adulthood, the writers tell the story of their country's turbulent journey to independence. Editor(s): Rodgers, Susan. Num Pages: 348 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMN; BGHA; HBAH; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520085473
ISBN
9780520085473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; BM; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 18.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762788194
ISBN
9780762788194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.18

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; BM; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 25.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780762780389
ISBN
9780762780389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.85

Hardback. Charles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major player in the cultural shift from the Georgian eighteenth to the Victorian nineteenth century. Num Pages: 322 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QRM; 3JH; AMB; BJ; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783272068
ISBN
9781783272068
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.02

Paperback. 'Rin Tin Tin is a remarkable book.. A wonderfully entertaining account of one of the strangest partnerships in a very strange milieu' John Banville, Guardian Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 x 8pp b/w plate sectons. BIC Classification: BGF; WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781843547099
ISBN
9781843547099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.16

Paperback. The story of orchid thief and obsessive, John Laroche, and the bizarre world of the orchid fanciers of Florida. The world of the orchid hunters, breeders and showmen, their rivalries, vendettas and crimes, smuggling, thefts and worse provide the backdrop to an exploration of one of the byways of human nature, the obsessive world of the collector. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: BG; WMPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099289586
ISBN
9780099289586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada Canada
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927330708
ISBN
9781927330708
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.63

Paperback. The first major biography of 18th century France's most mysterious woman, the daughter of Marie Antoinette, who vanished from public view during the tumultuous last days of the ancien regime Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 390.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747596660
ISBN
9780747596660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.27

Paperback. The Whitlams' wasn't just a love story - it was a dynamic and enduring partnership that shaped our nation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 24. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Condition
New
SKU
V9780733632440
ISBN
9780733632440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 122 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
Number of pages
122
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926613307
ISBN
9781926613307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Fine copy with light shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0014058
ISBN
9780717127979
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Well-read paperback in acceptable to good condition. Some shelf wear. Ex library with usual stamps and markings. Mylar dustjacket.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRF0009801
ISBN
9780717127979
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: ASD; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816638024
ISBN
9780816638024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

Paperback. The memoir of a Great Ormond Street nurse. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; MJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409129172
ISBN
9781409129172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

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