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Paperback. Tells the story of the infamous Peterhead Prison in Scotland's far north-east. Built in the 1880s as part of an ambitious humanitarian plan to use convict labour to construct a 'harbour of refuge' on the town's wild, storm-battered coast, it became what some call Scotland's gulag. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 pp. colour plate section. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Black and White Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845025380
- ISBN
- 9781845025380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.71
€ 17.99
€ 12.71
Paperback. A tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one of the world's most extraordinary safe blowers. He spent more than 40 years in jail. A daring escaper, he broke out of Scotland's grim prison fortress of Peterhead five times - three times in one year! A likeable rogue, he was a gentle man who in peacetime shrank from violence. Num Pages: 212 pages, 8 pp. plate section. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 226. The Extraordinary True Story of the Safe Blower Who Became a War Hero. 212 pages, 8 pp. plate section. A tale of a boy reared in the poverty of the Gorbals who became one of the world's most extraordinary safe blowers. He spent more than 40 years in jail. A daring escaper, he broke out of Scotland's grim prison fortress of Peterhead five times - three times in one year! A likeable rogue, he was a gentle man who in peacetime shrank from violence. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BTC. Dimension: 196 x 131 x 17. Weight: 234.
- Publisher
- Black & White Publishing
- Number of pages
- 212
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845023461
- ISBN
- 9781845023461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.08
€ 10.99
€ 9.08
Paperback. Detectives work the streets - an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence - to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. This work examines the moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they shuttle between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032323
- ISBN
- 9780674032323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.27
€ 35.99
€ 30.27
Paperback. With detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) is better known as a divisive figure than as a pioneering biologist. This biography rehabilitates Haeckel - focusing on his science and art. It also gives an account of Haeckel's eventful life. Num Pages: 512 pages, 8 colour plates, 122 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGT; PS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226712161
- ISBN
- 9780226712161
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.38
€ 36.99
€ 29.38
Paperback. Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr, has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. Booker T Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. This biography reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. Num Pages: 528 pages, 54 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFSL3; JN; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060371
- ISBN
- 9780674060371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.69
€ 35.99
€ 30.69
Hardback. Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus's ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of modern debates about demography, resources, and the environment, giving historical depth to our current planetary concerns. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGH; HBJD1; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 233 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674728714
- ISBN
- 9780674728714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.32
€ 47.99
€ 39.32
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Dundurn Group Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554887392
- ISBN
- 9781554887392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.41
€ 19.99
€ 18.41
Hardback. Janeway was one of the most prominent paediatricians of the 20th century. This biography describes his illustrious medical family and his remarkable tenure of nearly three decades as Thomas Morgan Rotch Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and head of the department of medicine at Children's Hospital, Boston. Num Pages: 425 pages, 22 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGT; MJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023802
- ISBN
- 9780674023802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.29
€ 40.99
€ 33.29
Hardcover. This collection of over 350 letters written by William Beckford to his bookseller George Clarke constitutes the most complete documentary record of his collecting habits and literary pursuits in existence. The letters are also significant as historical documents that guide the reader into the golden age of the London book trade in the 1830s. Num Pages: 304 pages, 32 colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 806.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781553268
- ISBN
- 9781781553268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 31.60
€ 46.99
€ 31.60
Paperback. Conspiracies, treason and heresy at the court of the dying tyrant Num Pages: 336 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753819364
- ISBN
- 9780753819364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.90
€ 16.90
Paperback. Clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press,U.S.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0012863
- ISBN
- 9780838776650
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 10.00
€ 10.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 488 pages, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: AFKV; APB; BGF; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816691296
- ISBN
- 9780816691296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.56
€ 21.56
Paperback. The definitive, intimate, no-holds-barred biography of Johnny Cash. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: AVGL; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 38. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780220956
- ISBN
- 9781780220956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.30
€ 21.99
€ 16.30
Hardback. Robert Hart was the Ch'ing government's Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service. These journals follow on from "Entering China's Service" and cover the years when Hart was setting up Customs procedures, establishing a modus operandi with the Ch'ing bureaucracy and inspecting treaty ports. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 600 pages, 10 half-tones, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; BGA; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 936.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 600
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674775305
- ISBN
- 9780674775305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.82
€ 43.99
€ 36.82
hardcover. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing some light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0005977
- ISBN
- 9780571161089
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 6.23
€ 6.23
Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- SKU
- KKD0007394
- ISBN
- 9780571132676
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. History has known no monarch like her. She has travelled farther than all her predecessors put together and lived longer than any of them - Queen Elizabeth II. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGR; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099551157
- ISBN
- 9780099551157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
€ 14.99
€ 11.73
Hardcover. This is the story of Elizabeth of Bohemia, James I's captivating but unfortunate daughter who was driven from the throne of Bohemia in 1620. Among the many men who championed her sorrowful fortunes, Lord Craven was the most faithful. Brave, wealthy and supremely generous, this latter-day knight-errant fought for her and supported her unstintingly. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20. BIC Classification: 1DBKESB; 3JD; AMKH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781553244
- ISBN
- 9781781553244
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.41
€ 26.99
€ 19.41
Hardback. A collection of letters describing the day-to-day work and experiences of a doctor at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota during the mid-1950s. Editor(s): Collins, Cary C.; Mutschler, Charles V. Num Pages: 448 pages, 13 b&w photos, 5 maps, 4 figures, appendix. BIC Classification: 1KBBNS; 3JJP; BJ; JFSL9; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803226258
- ISBN
- 9780803226258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.92
€ 52.92
Hardcover. When Grace Anna Goodhue wed Calvin Coolidge in 1905, she thought then that marriage "has seldom united two people of more vastly different temperaments and tastes." Warm to her husband's dour and taciturn, Grace was to be a contrast to Calvin for years to come. This work shows how their marriage ensured her husband's rise to high office. Num Pages: 184 pages, 28 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700615636
- ISBN
- 9780700615636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.97
€ 59.97