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Paperback. A beautiful book, as beautiful in the simple clarity of its wisdom as in the terrible beauty of the transformation to which it calls us. -- New Oxford Review Num Pages: 160 pages, Black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HRCV9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 143 x 9. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780232520781
ISBN
9780232520781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.44

hardcover. Henri Garidel was expelled from occupied New Orleans by Federal forces after refusing to pledge loyalty to the Union. This is his diary from 1863 to 1865, in which he relates the trials and discomforts - physical, emotional, spiritual and professional - of life in a city foreign to him. Series: Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 544 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; BGHA; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 894.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813920184
ISBN
9780813920184
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; JFFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781563681226
ISBN
9781563681226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.96

Paperback. The sensational sequel to 'Papillon'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 19. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Hunter Publishing+inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780586040102
ISBN
9780586040102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. In January 2014 the author was informed that he had cancer. This book is not about death, but about what it means to be human. It is about love and jealousy, courage and fear, about what it is like to live with a fatal illness. It is also about why the cave painters 40,000 years ago chose the very darkest places for their fascinating pictures. Translator(s): Thompson, Laurie. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784701567
ISBN
9781784701567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 11.72

Hardcover. Colth binding slightly rubbed, clean text
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
NISBET London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1917
SKU
KLN0004641
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 46.00

Hardback. Tracing Coolidge's life from his thirteenth birthday until his graduation from Amherst College ten years later, this work outlines the education of a reluctant young man from rural Vermont. Num Pages: 272 pages, 15ill. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBLL; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838752647
ISBN
9780838752647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.23

Paperback. An Officer and a Gentlewoman is the first female perspective on Sandhurst and the making of a female British Army officer. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BM; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256. 336 pages. When the author ditched her City job and decided to attend officer training at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, she had no military experience. On her arrival she was a complete novice: she'd never fired a rifle, she couldn't march; she couldn't even shine her shoes. This book charts her absorbing journey through Sandhurst and on to Afghanistan. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; BM; JWT. Dimension: 199 x 132 x 22. Weight: 260.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472102171
ISBN
9781472102171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.86

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 67 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 608. JG 52 on the Russian Front 1943-45. 224 pages, Over 67 black and white photographs. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 23. Weight: 608.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887404467
ISBN
9780887404467
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 28.26

Paperback. Translator(s): Odom, William. Num Pages: 240 pages, 25 B&W photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632203120
ISBN
9781632203120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.48

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Pocket Books London
Condition
New
SKU
V9780684827117
ISBN
9780684827117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.56

Paperback. Abandoned by her mother, who left to pursue a career as a camp guard at Auschwitz-Birkenau, loathed by her step-mother, cooped up in a cellar, starved, parched, lonely amidst the fetid crush of her neighbours, Helga Schneider endured the horrors of wartime Berlin. This book presents an account of her survival. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0019522
ISBN
9780099443735
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; VSP; VSPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Career Assurance Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934759448
ISBN
9781934759448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.36

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
AK Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849351973
ISBN
9781849351973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.34

Paperback. A timeless classic that should be on every book-lover's 'must read' list. First published in 1971, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD has never been out of print. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 110 x 15. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751503845
ISBN
9780751503845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.26

Hardback. Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) continues to fascinate historians, writers, and filmmakers more than two centuries after her death. She became a symbol of the excesses of France's aristocracy in the eighteenth century that helped pave the way to dissolution of the country's monarchy. Num Pages: 216 pages, 225 Color. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 297 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1572.
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606064832
ISBN
9781606064832
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.48
€ 42.28

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, 80 photographs. BIC Classification: AGB; AKLC; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Elysee Associates
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780993453007
ISBN
9780993453007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780743266253
ISBN
9780743266253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.57

Paperback. Twists and Turns is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "with love's force one hates. " And yet, "everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745663289
ISBN
9780745663289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.04

Hardcover. Twists and Turns is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "with love's force one hates. " And yet, "everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745663272
ISBN
9780745663272
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.59

Hardback. Philippines is Helene Cixous's reverie or 'truedreaming' which intertwines Freud's uneasy views on telepathy,autobiographical memories conflating Algeria and Paris, childhoodand adult life, shared with her brother 'Pete', and literaryevocations from Proust and George du Maurier's forgotten novelPeter Ibbetson. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745648156
ISBN
9780745648156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.65

Hardback. Follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of Jacques Derrida. This book merges the biography and textual commentary in a portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverly Bie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 color illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231128247
ISBN
9780231128247
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.84

Paperback. Philippines is Helene Cixous's reverie or 'truedreaming' which intertwines Freud's uneasy views on telepathy,autobiographical memories conflating Algeria and Paris, childhoodand adult life, shared with her brother 'Pete', and literaryevocations from Proust and George du Maurier's forgotten novelPeter Ibbetson. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745648163
ISBN
9780745648163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.98

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Quercus MacLehose Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906694197
ISBN
9781906694197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

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