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Biography
Hardback. The first African American to head a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL), Regina Andrews led an extraordinary life. Allied with W E B Du Bois, she fought for promotion and equal pay against entrenched sexism and racism. This book offers the portrait of Andrews' activism. Num Pages: 168 pages, 23 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGH; GL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252038501
- ISBN
- 9780252038501
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. Translator(s): Pomerans, Arnold J. Num Pages: 430 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: BG; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 142 x 36. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780953478057
- ISBN
- 9780953478057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.14
€ 20.99
€ 18.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 141 x 31. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Henry Holt & Company Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780805050875
- ISBN
- 9780805050875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.39
€ 23.99
€ 20.39
Hardback. Jacob Dolson Cox, a former divinity student with no formal military training, was among those who rose to the challenge. In a conflict in which "political generals" often proved less than competent, Cox, the consummate citizen general, emerged as one of the best commanders in the Union army. Series: War and Society in North America. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1225.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821420829
- ISBN
- 9780821420829
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.29
€ 92.29
Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780990895893
- ISBN
- 9780990895893
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.12
€ 140.12
paperback. A riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 x 8pp b/w. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJC; 3JJF; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Mainstream Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781845965730
- ISBN
- 9781845965730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.14
€ 12.99
€ 11.14
hardcover. Translator(s): Robinson, Blake. Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1HBA; AGB; BG; HBJH; WTH; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 585. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780821412725
- ISBN
- 9780821412725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.92
€ 52.92
Paperback. Series: Scholarly Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564784575
- ISBN
- 9781564784575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 6.23
€ 24.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Dundalgan Press (W.Tempest) Ltd Dundalk
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- SKU
- KEX0202730
- ISBN
- 9780852211281
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 362 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691606316
- ISBN
- 9780691606316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.98€ 47.36
€ 60.98
€ 47.36
Hardcover. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 186 x 17. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560728313
- ISBN
- 9781560728313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.62€ 70.71
€ 92.62
€ 70.71
Paperback. A memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelly, completed in the three and a half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. It offers a glimpse of the strategies Gene embraced to accept and live the final stages of his life with vibrancy and calm - and what his preparations for death taught him about life. Num Pages: 201 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BT; VFJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Education - Europe United States
- Number of pages
- 201
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- UK Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780077118471
- ISBN
- 9780077118471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.12
€ 17.99
€ 14.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; BM; JKVP; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 143 x 28. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155967
- ISBN
- 9781903155967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.00
€ 20.99
€ 18.00
Paperback. A synthesis of the work of international scholars, this is an account of the people who animated a decisive period in the genesis of the modern mind - the Renaissance. Confining its attention to the "great" Renaissance which originated in Italy, the book treats a broad spectrum of figures. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACND; BGH; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226283562
- ISBN
- 9780226283562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
€ 40.99
€ 31.01
Hardcover. By the time Eunice Grayson played James Bond's girlfriend she had already become one of the first reality TV stars. Her leading men included Sean Connery and Roger Moore, and she co-starred in a record-breaking run of 'The Sound of Music'. This is the inside story of an original Bond girl and some of the best-loved films ever made. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publisher
- Signum
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956653475
- ISBN
- 9780956653475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 17.90
€ 26.99
€ 17.90
Hardcover. Cliff and Eunice Holliday went to live in Jerusalem in 1922, during a period of political upheaval and unrest. Cliff had the task of restoring the old city and building control outside. This book contains the letters Eunice wrote home, which portray a city during a critical time in its history. Num Pages: 224 pages, halftones, maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJG; AMVD; BGHA; HBJF1; HBLW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 276 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860640858
- ISBN
- 9781860640858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.63€ 53.63
€ 58.63
€ 53.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACV; AFC; BG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 58461st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801486098
- ISBN
- 9780801486098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.60
€ 22.60
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718893132
- ISBN
- 9780718893132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.02
€ 42.02
Paperback. Eva Figes and her family fled the horror of Nazi Germany when Eva was only six, forced to leave behind them friends, relatives and their housemaid, Edith. Ten years later, Edith suddenly re-emerged in their lives. Having miraculously survived wartime Berlin, she had reluctantly emigrated to hostile, volatile Palestine. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847080684
- ISBN
- 9781847080684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.08
€ 10.99
€ 9.08
Paperback. The remarkable memoir of Eva Hart, a 7-year-old survivor of the Titanic Disaster Num Pages: 192 pages, 65 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QSAN; BM; HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445617145
- ISBN
- 9781445617145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.44
€ 13.99
€ 11.44
Hardcover. How did one create and maintain for oneself the persona of scientist at the beginning of the twentieth century? What special conditions bore upon scientific women, and on married women in particular? This book provides a composite picture not only of the making of Marie Curie, but the making of modern science itself. Series: Science-Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: BGT; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226235844
- ISBN
- 9780226235844
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 78.06
€ 93.81
€ 78.06
Paperback. A memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. It tells the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragedies and discoveries born of cultural displacement. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 1KBB; 3JJP; BGA; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099428664
- ISBN
- 9780099428664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.65
€ 14.99
€ 11.65
Hardcover. Eva Jean Wrather (1908-2001) spent most of her adult lifetime writing a biography of Alexander Campbell, the only Protestant denomination to spring from American soil. Shortly before Wrather's death, the manuscript totaled 800,000 words or 3,254 pages. This title includes Campbell's lifetime of theological doctrine and literary writing. Editor(s): Cummins, D. Duane. Num Pages: 308 pages, 48 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; HRCC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875654003
- ISBN
- 9780875654003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.14
€ 25.99
€ 25.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Daimon Verlag
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783856305857
- ISBN
- 9783856305857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.21
€ 35.99
€ 26.21