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Paperback. Offering a critical analysis of Louis Farrakhan's ascent to national influence, the author argues that the minister's rise to prominence is a function of race and reaction in contemporary America. He probes the origins and significance of Farrakhan in American politics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; JFF; JFSL1; JFSL3; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878406586
ISBN
9780878406586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781681370743
ISBN
9781681370743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.46

Paperback.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843511755
ISBN
9781843511755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.00
€ 17.10

Paperback. While growing up, the author felt like 'the village idiot with O'levels'. He left Yorkshire to work as a journalist in London, but returned when his dad called with the news that they were going to have to sell the family farm, and, in so doing, leave the home and livelihood. This book presents his personal account. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; BGA; TV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st Penguin Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141012940
ISBN
9780141012940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.79

Paperback. Adrian Kenny's memoir is many things: diary of a frustrated young writer and lover; portrait of bohemian social life in 1970s Dublin; and an intimate history of the rising Catholic middle class, the advanced guard of the Celtic Tiger. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BG; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Lilliput Pr Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901866377
ISBN
9781901866377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.30

Paperback. Editor(s): Anderson, Howard. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700600038
ISBN
9780700600038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.91

Paperback. After the events of 11 September, the author noticed that many colleagues seemed determined to understand the perpetrator rather than support the victim. America, in their view, had it coming. In rejecting that analysis, the author set out to unpick the prejudices that had come to shape progressive, liberal and wider public opinion. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; JPF; JPFK; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784700423
ISBN
9781784700423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 9.46

Paperback. Andrew Anthony was shocked by the response of liberal friends and colleagues after 9/11- a belief that America had it coming, a determination to understand the perpetrator rather than support the victim. This memoir offers an account of his political education in Thatcher's Britain and the painful midlife reassessment. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238. Some light shelf wear else as new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Vintage Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KTG0007763
ISBN
9780099507857
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The only book to collect together interviews with every member of The Fall, past and present. Num Pages: 336 pages, integrated b&w illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: AVGU; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232. Life in and Out of Britain's Most Insane Group. 336 pages, ill. The only book to collect together interviews with every member of The Fall, past and present. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGU; AVH; BGFA. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight: 282.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847671448
ISBN
9781847671448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.54

Hardcover. Step 1: Tito has cerebral palsy. Step 2: I blame Tito's cerebral palsy on Pietro Lombardo. This title features Diogo Mainardi and his son Tito in a journey of 424 steps, starting with Tito's disastrous birth in Venice, in Lombardo's Renaissance hospital. Translator(s): Costa, Margaret Jull. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846557804
ISBN
9781846557804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages, 2 x 8pp B&W plates. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGL; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408863169
ISBN
9781408863169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.30

Hardback. The Fall of a Sparrow recounts the life and times of Abba Kovner, partisan, poet, patriot, an unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence. Editor(s): Yuval, Elizabeth. Translator(s): Yuval, Elizabeth. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 440 pages, 2 tables, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGL; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804762489
ISBN
9780804762489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.25

Paperback. Graham Holderness examines the evidence for Shakespeare's beliefs both from his life and key works. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: BGX; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Lion Hudson
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745968919
ISBN
9780745968919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 235 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; BGX; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers United States
Number of pages
235
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595553539
ISBN
9781595553539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.70

Paperback. A work of candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. It concentrates on five episodes from Philip Roth's life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520962
ISBN
9780099520962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; 3JJP; 3JM; BM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 114. .
Publisher
Regan Arts United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632060525
ISBN
9781632060525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.13

Paperback. BIC Classification: BTC; JKVF; JKVF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786062871
ISBN
9781786062871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.90

Hardcover. A look at the personal and professional lives of Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 173 x 19. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589791169
ISBN
9781589791169
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.49

Paperback. In 1903, Roger Casement, then a British consul, left his consular base on the Lower Congo River and made a journey through the regions of the Upper Congo to investigate at first hand reports of alleged atrocities. This edition brings together Casement's report, together with his diary of that year. Editor(s): O Siochain, Seamas (Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland). Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1HFJC; 1HFJZ; 3JJC; BG; HBJH; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR; HBTZ; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ College Dublin Pr
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781900621991
ISBN
9781900621991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BT; VXPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Hampton Roads Publishing Co United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571744296
ISBN
9781571744296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.48

Hardback. A biography of the artist Oskar Kokoschka who, despite being badly wounded in the First World War, lived to paint, teach, write, exhibit, and engage the affections of a host of beautiful women. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DFA; ACXD1; AFC; AGB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 704. Very good copy

First edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KEX0303320
ISBN
9780747542070
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 25.00

Hardback. Num Pages: 406 pages, 128pp of illustrations and photographs. BIC Classification: BGH; BGT; TRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 39. Weight in Grams: 860. 406 pages, 128pp of illustrations and photographs. Translation of: Het ware verhaal van de Kever: hoe Hitler het ontwerp van een joods genie confisqueerde. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGH; BGT; TRC. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 39. Weight: 844.
Publisher
RVP Publishers Inc.
Number of pages
406
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781614122012
ISBN
9781614122012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.68

Hardback. This is a remarkable story, not just about the extraordinary achievements of a family, but about the power of the individual to spur innovation, even when the consen Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: BGHA; BK; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Short Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780720890
ISBN
9781780720890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 247 pages, Ill.tabs. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Addax Publishing Group,U.S. United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9781886110458
ISBN
9781886110458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.33

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