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Paperback. To Print the News and Raise Hell!: A Biography of Wilbur F. Storey Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807879580
ISBN
9780807879580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.00
€ 53.76

Paperback. With the growth of English cities during the Industrial Revolution came a booming population too vast for churchyards. Beckett Street Cemetery in Leeds was to become the first municipal cemetery in the country. This study relates how the cemetery was started and run, and describes the developing feuds between denominations. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750950602
ISBN
9780750950602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.24

Paperback. One night in 1974, Philippe Petit secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour. This memoir tells the story of how he conspired, connived, improvised, and insisted his way to this coup. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPL; BM; WSE; WSZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Tie-In
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571326907
ISBN
9780571326907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.89

Hardback. "Rachel Van Dyke's journal helps us to see just how porous were the boundaries of literary culture, aesthetics, sociability, and self-fashioning. . . . Above all, it reminds us of the willful and determined self-creation demanded of any young woman, however privileged, who harbored intellectual ambitions in the early republic."-- Editor(s): McMahon, Lucia; Schriver, Deborah. Num Pages: 440 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 850.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812235494
ISBN
9780812235494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.41

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hackemer, Kurt H; Carmichael, Professor Peter S. Series: Voices of the Civil War. Num Pages: 365 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572334427
ISBN
9781572334427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.19
€ 48.83

paperback. Son of an American journalist and a Russian writer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin. After Eleanor Roosevelt personally engineered his family's escape from Russia, Fischer went on to fight for the Allied forces in World War II, and serve as a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 425 pages, 31 colour plates, 31 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; BGH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Alaska Press United States
Number of pages
425
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781602231405
ISBN
9781602231405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 23.83

Paperback. Editor(s): Fleming, Lee. Num Pages: 244 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781875559480
ISBN
9781875559480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.79

Paperback. Combining personal interviews with contemporary and vintage photographs, this work pairs the stories of a handful of rescuers with those of people they saved. It creates a multidimensional picture of the evasive strategies and heartstopping close calls that filled the years of the Holocaust for both rescuers and rescued. Num Pages: 344 pages, 100 photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; AJCR; BTM; BTP; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 196 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252074028
ISBN
9780252074028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.06

Paperback. With humble beginnings as an RAF apprentice, Johnny Wells progressed to pilot and rose to the higher echelons of command at the Air Ministry. This title provides a testimony of what was required of air pilots during the Second World War. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752463537
ISBN
9780752463537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.22

Paperback. Alice Taylor's classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside, the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. Beautifully illustrated throughout with a new introduction by the author. Num Pages: 240 pages, 65 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; BM; HBTB; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
O´Brien Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847178237
ISBN
9781847178237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.92

Hardback. If ever a voice has captured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. This classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside became the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland. Num Pages: 240 pages, 65 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 145 x 29. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
O´Brien Press Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
25th Anniversary ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847175878
ISBN
9781847175878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. An intimate exploration of the complexity of a bicultural immigrant experience, this text traces three generations of an Iranian (and Iranian-American) family undergoing a century of change - from the author's grandfather to her father, to Bahrampour herself. Num Pages: 357 pages, 4 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1KBB; 3JJ; BGA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520223547
ISBN
9780520223547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.42

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 474 pages, 46 halftones 12 line illus. 23 tables. BIC Classification: BGT; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 657.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691606965
ISBN
9780691606965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 95.22
€ 73.00

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 474 pages, 46 halftones 12 line illus. 23 tables. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; BGT; MBG; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
474
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691635644
ISBN
9780691635644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 286.31

Paperback. To the Arctic by Canoe records the experiences of a remarkable young adventurer during the first overland Arctic expedition led by Sir John Franklin. This expedition was the first to travel the northern coast of North America's Arctic; in two birch-bark canoes the party surveyed no less than 675 miles of Arctic coastline. Num Pages: 280 pages, 24 colour illustrations, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 1MTN; 3JH; BG; BJ; RGR; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773512221
ISBN
9780773512221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BGF. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group GB
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408705124
ISBN
9781408705124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.83

Paperback. The highs and lows of one of Britain's best-loved golfers Num Pages: 320 pages, 8pp b/w & 16pp colour photos. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250. Clean copy.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Headline London
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KEX0204979
ISBN
9780755314720
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DSE; BT; HRCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802825926
ISBN
9780802825926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.41

Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Blackwater Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KOC0017071
ISBN
9781841319063
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear and discolouring
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Blackwater Press
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KOG0004225
ISBN
9781841319063
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Written just after the heat of battle, in the language of the time, this is the personal account of an ordinary soldier's experience of one of the most horrific series of battles ever fought. Downing not only offers a graphic description of war, but also of the humour and heroism of these actions. Num Pages: 218 pages, map. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BTM; HBG; HBJD; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Grub Street Publishing
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904010203
ISBN
9781904010203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.15

Paperback. Describes life as captain of Austro-Hungarian U-boats in the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas, emerging by turn as the Imperial Austrian naval officer, the witty observer of international politics, and indefatigable and heartbroken patriot opposing the Allied enemy. This title offers a combination of human interest, and life-and-death adventure. Translator(s): Campbell, Elizabeth M. Num Pages: 224 pages, 33 photographs, map, figure. BIC Classification: BG; HBG; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803213500
ISBN
9780803213500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.47

Hardcover. Helicopter pilots in Vietnam kidded one another about being nothing but glorified bus drivers. But these "rotor heads" saved thousands of American lives while performing what the Army classified as the most dangerous job it had to offer. One in eighteen did not return home. Tom A. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 b+w photographs. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 37. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597970013
ISBN
9781597970013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.18

Paperback. For the first time in paperback, and fully updated-the definitive history of the most popular rock-and-roll band of all time, the Eagles. Num Pages: 418 pages, 34 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 592. The Untold Story of the Eagles. 420 pages, 34 b&w photos. For the first time in paperback, and fully updated-the definitive history of the most popular rock-and-roll band of all time, the Eagles. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP; BGF. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 29. Weight: 586.
Publisher
Hachette Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306813986
ISBN
9780306813986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.14

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