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Biography
Paperback. Introduces readers to the basics of volcanology. This book follows the author as he descends into the steaming crater of the Soufri re Volcano on the island of St Vincent, as he conducts research on lava flows on the desolate south shore of the Island of Hawaii, and as he struggles to understand the explosion at Mount St Helens. Num Pages: 180 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: BG; RBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691070179
- ISBN
- 9780691070179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.01
€ 36.99
€ 27.01
Paperback. A wonderful farewell to the generation that fought at the battles of the Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele, Arras and Loos. Num Pages: 340 pages, 32 plate section, including 8 pages of colour, 70 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; BGHA; BJ; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473860896
- ISBN
- 9781473860896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.96
€ 20.99
€ 19.96
Paperback. At 19 years of age, Norman Collins, the author of this memoir lead a platoon of men into the carnage of the Battle of the Somme. Editor(s): Van Emden, Richard. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DBKSH; 3JJF; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 8. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848848658
- ISBN
- 9781848848658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.13
€ 17.99
€ 14.13
Hardcover. The tragic saga of a nineteenth-century fugitive, ne'er-do-well, and would-be savant that touches on themes as compelling today as they were in Victorian times Num Pages: 275 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472113378
- ISBN
- 9780472113378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.55
€ 44.99
€ 37.55
Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; BG; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312225605
- ISBN
- 9780312225605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Paperback. Editor(s): Etulain, Richard W. Num Pages: 334 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; BG; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 547.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826324337
- ISBN
- 9780826324337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.44
€ 34.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. George W G Ferris Jr and his wheel helped usher America - eager to identify itself with ingenuity, entrepreneurialism, and innovation - into the 20th century. Yet the very wheel that came to define George Ferris in the end consumed him, leaving him ruined. This book is a biography of George Ferris. Num Pages: 164 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; TNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- ASCE Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780784410103
- ISBN
- 9780784410103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.65
€ 52.99
€ 44.65
Paperback. The murder of popular vaudeville actor Thomas Weldon Atherstone in 1910 remains one of Britain's great unsolved mysteries. Expert Ripperologist Richard Whittington-Egan investigates. Num Pages: 224 pages, 36. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 125 x 23. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445645445
- ISBN
- 9781445645445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.62
€ 18.62
Paperback. The definitive work on Jack the Ripper and the various theories from the time of the murders to the present day Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 238 x 40. Weight in Grams: 678.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445649610
- ISBN
- 9781445649610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.37
€ 26.37
Hardcover. Even two hundred years after Abraham Lincoln's death, we, like Walt Whitman, "love the President personally." Num Pages: 416 pages, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 250 x 35. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393065305
- ISBN
- 9780393065305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.29
€ 30.99
€ 26.29
Hardcover. Many people know that Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionism, a master of landscape painting whose works include Sunrise and Water Lilies. Biographic: Monet presents an instant impression of his life, work and fame, with an array of irresistible facts and figures convered into infographics to reveal the artist behind the pictures. Num Pages: 96 pages, full colour photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; ACVT; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 242 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781452899
- ISBN
- 9781781452899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
€ 13.99
€ 10.94
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138944169
- ISBN
- 9781138944169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 44.75
€ 49.99
€ 44.75
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 bw in 8pp plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780763897
- ISBN
- 9781780763897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.45€ 40.76
€ 52.45
€ 40.76
Paperback. Millions of people around the world watched in horror on that fateful day in Imola at the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix when Ayrton Senna's car careered off the track at 190mph. The greatest driver in Formula One history was dead. This book explores Senna's life. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BGS; WSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241950128
- ISBN
- 9780241950128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.65
€ 14.99
€ 11.65
Paperback. Ferrari, the name itself evokes the world of speed, a world of fast cars, heroic deeds and glamour. This is the story of the man behind the name. This biography goes back to Enzo Ferrari's origins and traces his remarkable rise to prominence. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 b&w halftones. BIC Classification: BG; TRC; WGCB; WSPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Yellow Jersey
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224059862
- ISBN
- 9780224059862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.13
€ 17.99
€ 13.13
Paperback. This title, originally published in 1972, has been updated to include Spector's work over the following three decades and the bizarre circumstances surrounding the shooting of Lana Clarkson at Spector's Los Angeles mansion on 03 February 2003. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Omnibus Press
- SKU
- 9780711998643
- ISBN
- 9780711998643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.75
€ 9.99
€ 8.75
Paperback. An introduction to the life and work of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary and cultural critic. The text offers insight into Benjamin's complex relationships with Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism and Western Marxism. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 316 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: BG; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520084001
- ISBN
- 9780520084001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.97
€ 45.99
€ 32.97
President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan governs a critical state in the worldwide war on terror. During his tenure as president, the Pakistani economy has grown. This work examines the life and career of this leader, whose decisions are capable of influencing some of the most pressing issues of our time. Series: Modern World Leaders. Num Pages: 104 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKP; BGH; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Chelsea House Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780791092644
- ISBN
- 9780791092644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.54
€ 35.99
€ 30.54
Hardcover. Interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. By reflecting on the interaction of memory, notebooks, and other records, this book argues, the English virtuosi shaped an ethos of long-term empirical scientific inquiry. Num Pages: 384 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGT; HBJD1; PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226106564
- ISBN
- 9780226106564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 42.14
€ 53.99
€ 42.14
Paperback. The first definitive biography of Bob Hope, that makes the case that he was most important entertainer of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 576 pages, 16 page b&w photo insert. BIC Classification: APB; APT; ASZH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439140284
- ISBN
- 9781439140284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.26
€ 21.99
€ 21.26