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paperback. Presents Einstein's writings from the final period of his work in Switzerland. The material in this volume documents Einstein's search for a relativistic theory of gravitation, a search that ended in Berlin in the fall of 1915 with the completion of the general theory of relativity. Translator(s): Beck, Anna; Howard, Don. Series: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 3JJC; BGA; PHR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
KMK0021478
ISBN
9780691026107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.00

paperback. Presents Einstein's writings for the two-year period starting in October 1909. This volume concludes with the report that Einstein, by then a full professor at the German-language university in Prague, gave to the original Solvay Congress, the first international meeting devoted to the problems of radiation and the quantum theory. Editor(s): Klein, Martin J. (Professor of History of Science, Yale University, USA); Kox, A. J.; Renn, Juergen; Schulmann, Robert. Translator(s): Beck, Anna. Series: The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Num Pages: 447 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 3JJC; BGA; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 203 x 32. Weight in Grams: 885. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0021479
ISBN
9780691102504
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 40.00

Paperback. Published for the first time in English, this is an account of Che Guevara's 1952 motorcycle tour of South America by his close friend and travelling companion, Alberto Granado. Translator(s): Alvarez de Toledo, Lucia. Num Pages: 240 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1KLS; BGH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Pimlico
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844134267
ISBN
9781844134267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Num Pages: 392 pages, 51 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300219807
ISBN
9780300219807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.20

Hardback. Series: Biografias De Grandes Lideres De Nuestros Tiempos. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGX; HRCX7. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Zondervan United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780829762051
ISBN
9780829762051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.11

Paperback. Josef Sepp Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knights Cross. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; BM; HBWQ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781590041
ISBN
9781781590041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.52

Paperback. Series: Borealis Book S. Num Pages: 702 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BGH; KNGT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 33. Weight in Grams: 974.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
702
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873512619
ISBN
9780873512619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.34

hardcover. Editor(s): Carter, Alden R. Series: The American Crisis Series: Books on the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBWJ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780742570535
ISBN
9780742570535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.93

Hardback. Palmiro Togliatti could not have become leader of the Italian Communist Party at a more difficult time in the Party's history. This is the biography of this Communist politician and intellectual. It explores Togliatti's intellectual development, his achievements and his sometimes criminal mistakes as the leading member of the Comintern. Series: Communist Lives. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGH; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 724.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845117269
ISBN
9781845117269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.53
€ 133.93

Hardback. The slave and gladiator Spartacus has been the subject of myth-making in his own time and of movie-making in ours. Aldo Schiavone brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Spartacus emerges here as the commander of an army, whose aim was to incite Italy to revolt against Rome and to strike at the very heart of the imperial system. Translator(s): Carden, Jeremy. Series: Revealing Antiquity. Num Pages: 218 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 123 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
218
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674057784
ISBN
9780674057784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.20

Hardback. A world-renowned classicist presents a thrilling revisionist biography of the Bible's most controversial figure. Translator(s): Carden, Jeremy. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; BGH; HBJF1; HBLA; HRCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631492358
ISBN
9781631492358
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HBG; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780967967530
ISBN
9780967967530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.38

Paperback. Father Joseph was an aspirant to sainthood and a practising mystic, yet his ruthless exercise of power succeeded in prolonging the unspeakable horrors of the Thirty Years War. This title explores how an intensely religious man could lead such a life and how he could reconcile the seemingly opposing moral systems of religion and politics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSK; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099477822
ISBN
9780099477822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BM; JMTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099458203
ISBN
9780099458203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.93

paperback. In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of conspiring with the devil to seduce an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; BT; HRQX9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099477761
ISBN
9780099477761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.33

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
MacMillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333594773
ISBN
9780333594773
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.36

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752450049
ISBN
9780752450049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 100 black & white illustrations, 32 colour illustrations, 16 colour plates. BIC Classification: APFX; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750953634
ISBN
9780750953634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Aled: My Story reveals the man behind the music in a frank, heart-warming and funny account of his life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: APT; AVGN; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784183257
ISBN
9781784183257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. Jodorowsky's memoirs of his experiences with Master Takata and the group of wisewomen--magiciennes--who influenced his spiritual growth. Num Pages: 288 pages, Includes two 8-page b&w inserts. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384. The Creator of "El Topo". 264 pages, illustrations. Jodorowsky's memoirs reveal his experience with Master Takata and a group of wisewomen--magiciennes--who influenced his spiritual growth. He turns the same unsparing spiritual vision seen in the 1970 countercultural hit film El Topo to his own spiritual quest. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGA. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 18. Weight: 472.
Publisher
Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594771736
ISBN
9781594771736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.29

Paperback. Alek Wek, supermodel, campaigner, spokesperson and entrepreneur, tells her amazing story, from war-torn Sudan to the catwalks of London, Paris and New York Num Pages: 224 pages, Section: 16, colour. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KLN0016368
ISBN
9781844084425
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. Alek Wek, supermodel, campaigner, spokesperson and entrepreneur, tells her amazing story, from war-torn Sudan to the catwalks of London, Paris and New York Num Pages: 224 pages, Section: 16, colour. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KLN0016451
ISBN
9781844084425
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. A collection of memoirs from Soviet gulag that lends a voice to the many ordinary people - including a circus performer, a teenage boy, and a Red Army soldier - whom a brutal system attempted to erase from memory. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: BM; HBG; HBLW; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810126558
ISBN
9780810126558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. The first nonfiction book-searing, revealing, unforgettable-from one of our most acclaimed writers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 202 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447210917
ISBN
9781447210917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

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