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Hardcover. In 1793 the Witts family arrived in Edinburgh for a stay of five years. A well-to-do family they were brought to near penury brought the failure of Edward Witts business. Within a few months Edward and Agnes had built a wide circle of friends and acquaintance in the upper echelons of society where Agnes's magnetic personality worked its magic. Editor(s): Sutton, Alan. Num Pages: 416 pages, 60 illustrations, 30 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3JF; BGHA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 260 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1328.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781554845
- ISBN
- 9781781554845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.86
€ 33.99
€ 23.86
Paperback. When the anthropologist returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets a young man from the Taita Hills who is as interested in the United States as Smith is in Taita. This book tells the story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; BJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520281127
- ISBN
- 9780520281127
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardback. When the anthropologist returns to Kenya to begin fieldwork for a new research project, he meets a young man from the Taita Hills who is as interested in the United States as Smith is in Taita. This book tells the story of sorcery, redemption, and transnational friendship in the globalized twenty-first century. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; BJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520281103
- ISBN
- 9780520281103
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Condition: New
€ 95.06€ 73.24
€ 95.06
€ 73.24
Paperback. Explores the theme of friendship in the lives and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. This title offers a comprehensive view of how Emerson's and Thoreau's friendships took root and bolstered their individual political, social, and ethical projects. Editor(s): Lysaker, John T.; Rossi, William. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; DNF; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253221438
- ISBN
- 9780253221438
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.21
€ 24.99
€ 23.21
Hardcover. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BJ; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865972025
- ISBN
- 9780865972025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.26
€ 19.99
€ 16.26
Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BJ; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865972032
- ISBN
- 9780865972032
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.00
€ 11.99
€ 11.00
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306809989
- ISBN
- 9780306809989
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.19
€ 18.99
€ 15.19
Paperback. Takes up the story of the author when, after war service in the United States, he returns to life as an Oxford don. This title charts years of academic frustration and self-doubt, the intellectual explosion when he moves from philosophy to the history of ideas, his growing national fame as broadcaster and lecturer. Num Pages: 880 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 151 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1066.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 880
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844138340
- ISBN
- 9781844138340
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.28
€ 25.99
€ 18.28
Hardcover. Editor(s): Gonzalez-Allende, Iker. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 440 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 169 x 39. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662766
- ISBN
- 9781855662766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.56
€ 134.56
Paperback. One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This title includes translation of selected letters and essays that traces the life and thoughts of this extraordinary writer. Editor(s): Adler, Jeremy. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140447088
- ISBN
- 9780140447088
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardback. "There is scarcely one letter by Van Gogh which I, who am certainly no expert, do not find fascinating." --W. H. Auden Editor(s): Jansen, Leo; Luijten, Hans; Bakker, Nienke. Num Pages: 880 pages, 120 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVT; AFC; AGB; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 195 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1656.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Abridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300209471
- ISBN
- 9780300209471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.20
€ 52.99
€ 38.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, Integrated b&w. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BJ; BM; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751567021
- ISBN
- 9780751567021
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.92
€ 15.99
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Paperback. Charles Nedham was just twenty when he arrived in India in July 1845 as an ensign in HM 10th Foot. For the next four and a half years he lived as a young officer on duty in the sub-continent, finally seeing action in the Second Sikh War at the siege of Multan and the battle of Gujerat. Editor(s): Harrington, Peter. Num Pages: 112 pages, 26 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; BJ; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Helion and Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910294383
- ISBN
- 9781910294383
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.74
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€ 17.74
Paperback. A selection of the journals and letters of 19th century writer, Fanny Kemble. This collection provides an insight into the best-selling author's life and work, tracing her intellectual development - particularly her views on women and slavery, of which she was a passionate abolitionist. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 3JH; APB; BGA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780674004405
- ISBN
- 9780674004405
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.06
€ 36.99
€ 31.06
Paperback. Showcases the evolution of the writer of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels", through his work at the magazine that he helped to put on the map. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241960417
- ISBN
- 9780241960417
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 784
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747553458
- ISBN
- 9780747553458
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
Hardback. Feldpost: The War Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann documents the frontline experiences of a German soldier from the 6th Infantry Division from 1941- 1945. Niemann describes the fighting at Rzhev, Russia, 1942-1943, and his survival of the destruction of his division in 1944. His is a rare view of the conflict on the Eastern front. Num Pages: 288 pages, 60 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DV; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 244 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media LLc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781625450159
- ISBN
- 9781625450159
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.66
€ 33.99
€ 24.66
Paperback. The poems and performance art of Hugo Ball and his contemporaries were the beginnings of Dada. This work includes Ball's diaries, the original Dada manifesto and a critical introduction. Translator(s): Raimes, Ann. Series: Documents of Twentieth-Century Art. Num Pages: 324 pages, 14 b&w photographs, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; ACXD7; BG; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520204409
- ISBN
- 9780520204409
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Four Years With The Iron Brigade: The Civil War Journal Of William Ray...
Ray, William; Herdegen, Lance J.; Murphy, She...
hardcover. Based on an major recent discovery-the Civil War as seen from the front ranks of a legendary fighting unit Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Da Capo Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306811197
- ISBN
- 9780306811197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.27
€ 46.99
€ 33.27
hardcover. Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal Num Pages: 219 pages, 8 figures/1 table/ 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; BJ; HBTS; TVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814705100
- ISBN
- 9780814705100
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Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Paperback. Utilizes Brown's life to illuminate the concept of freedom as it developed in the United States in the early national and antebellum years Num Pages: 219 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479825233
- ISBN
- 9781479825233
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
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€ 26.56
Paperback. A South African in the North African and Italian Campaigns 1940-45. 256 pages, c 70 b/w photos, illustrations, maps. Based on the author's diaries, From Addis to the Aosta Valley is the account of Keith Ford's service in the Second World War from 1940-1945. This is the story of an ordinary soldier, but one who has a keen eye for detail for the countryside and people around him. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DST; 1HB; 3JJH; BJ; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Dimension: 236 x 166 x 11. Weight: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Helion and Company
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908916242
- ISBN
- 9781908916242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.32
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€ 20.32
Hardcover. Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be 'the safest place'? These fascinating contemporary papers paint a highly personal and immediate picture of the war as it happened. Num Pages: 304 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 16 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; BJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851243938
- ISBN
- 9781851243938
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.92
€ 13.99
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Paperback. Presents the story of the author's year re-creating the lifestyle of her 1790s ancestor in a basic one-roomed cottage, eating home-grown produce and surviving on her own resources - making household items herself and dressing in period clothing. This illustrated title includes gardening info, menus, recipes and nature notes. Num Pages: 224 pages, photographs, woodcuts, engravings, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JF; BJ; WK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 182 x 18. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publisher
- Saraband
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781887354776
- ISBN
- 9781887354776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.74
€ 23.99
€ 17.74