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Paperback. Editor(s): Forbes, Elliot. Num Pages: 552 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 542
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691027180
- ISBN
- 9780691027180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.07€ 51.18
€ 65.07
€ 51.18
Hardback. Presents a different view of Richard Wagner based on research that does not shy away from some truths about this controversial composer. This book tells what Wagner did, said, and wrote. It suggests that an estimation of Wagner does not lie in an all too easy condemnation of his many provocative actions and ideas. Num Pages: 324 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 1 table, 31 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC9; AVH; BGF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254534
- ISBN
- 9780520254534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 46.67
€ 59.15
€ 46.67
Paperback. Tavis Smiley recounts the story of his friendship with Maya Angelou Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Back Bay
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTJ8038655
- ISBN
- 9780316341776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.28
€ 7.28
Paperback. Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Num Pages: 304 pages, 40 b/w plates. BIC Classification: BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007487240
- ISBN
- 9780007487240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
€ 13.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. Paints a vivid portrait of a woman gloriously out of the step with the conventions of her time. Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American Aleutians. Series: Women in the West. Num Pages: 282 pages, Illus., maps. BIC Classification: 1MTN; BG; PST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803273443
- ISBN
- 9780803273443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.87
€ 20.99
€ 20.87
Paperback. This is a biography of Peter the Great. It tells his life story in 12 chapters, including two final chapters on his legacy and posthumous reputation, with the aim of providing a vivid sense of the dynamics of his life and reign. Num Pages: 285 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JD; 3JF; BGH; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300103007
- ISBN
- 9780300103007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.25
€ 19.99
€ 16.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 253 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Granville Island Publishing Canada
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894694063
- ISBN
- 9781894694063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.93
€ 26.99
€ 18.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 339 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVG; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Backbeat Books United States
- Number of pages
- 339
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780879307936
- ISBN
- 9780879307936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.35
€ 26.35
Hardback. Annie Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where othings seeno reflect a private life meeting the larger world. Ernaux's thought-provoking observations map the world's fleeting and lasting impressions on the shape of inner life. Translator(s): Kaplansky, Jonathan. Series: French Voices. Num Pages: 106 pages. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 106
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803210776
- ISBN
- 9780803210776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.63
€ 33.63
Paperback. Using her teenage diaries, the author tells of the horrors of the siege and surrender of Warsaw in 1939, the food shortages, raids and beatings, and the Nazi "Aktion" in 1942, when her family was hounded from shelter to shelter. In 1943 they escaped the ghetto but faced years in hiding. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860686521
- ISBN
- 9780860686521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.76
€ 15.76
Paperback. Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? In this book, the author takes you on a swimming tour of Britain, giving you a frog's-eye view of the country's best bathing holes - the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds lochs and sea that define this watery island. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BM; WND; WSSC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 8. Weight in Grams: 84.
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- 9781784872762
- ISBN
- 9781784872762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.99€ 6.43
€ 6.99
€ 6.43
Paperback. A hilarious book on sport, television and our love/hate relationship with both. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- On Demand
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447219552
- ISBN
- 9781447219552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.96
€ 19.99
€ 15.96
Paperback. Annie Ernaux turns her penetrating focus on those points in life where the everyday and the extraordinary intersect, where "things seen" reflect a private life meeting the larger world. Ernaux's thought-provoking observations map the world's fleeting and lasting impressions on the shape of inner life. Translator(s): Kaplansky, Jonathan. Series: French Voices. Num Pages: 106 pages. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780803228153
- ISBN
- 9780803228153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.52
€ 18.99
€ 14.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 201 x 16. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812984873
- ISBN
- 9780812984873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.81
€ 19.99
€ 16.81
Paperback. For fans of Call the Midwife and Nurse On Call, comes a funny, poignant account of life as a Devon country doctor. Editor(s): White-Cooper, Deborah. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWD; BGA; MBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0013211
- ISBN
- 9781447252122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. This study of 13 personal accounts of the Mau Mau revolt by Kenyans, demonstrates that these memoirs serve to refute both the British version of the revolt and that of the leaders of the independent Kenyan state. It also points to the importance of Mau Mau in the making of modern Kenya. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; BG; HBJH; HBLW3; JPFN; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781555875374
- ISBN
- 9781555875374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.00
€ 90.00
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718893439
- ISBN
- 9780718893439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.21
€ 34.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BT; VFVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manor House Publishing Inc Canada
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897453100
- ISBN
- 9781897453100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.60
€ 16.99
€ 12.60
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Silman-James Press,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935247135
- ISBN
- 9781935247135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.97
€ 26.99
€ 18.97
Paperback. The brilliant Sunday Times bestseller - Sharon's brand new autobiography now in paperback Num Pages: 304 pages, Section: 24, colour pix. BIC Classification: APT; AVGP; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 1. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- Digital original
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751540543
- ISBN
- 9780751540543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.11
€ 17.11
Paperback. This biography sets out to reveal the true identity of the novelist Thomas Mann. His bisexuality, obsession with preserving appearances and the deep guilt which plagued him for much of his life is exposed. These revelations are drawn from Mann's diaries and interviews with his children. Num Pages: 8pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747529460
- ISBN
- 9780747529460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.47
€ 33.99
€ 24.47
Paperback. Translator(s): Leslie, Tanya. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583220528
- ISBN
- 9781583220528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.85
€ 13.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Emma was one of England's most remarkable queens: a formidable woman who made her mark on a Europe beset by Vikings. She was a survivor: her life was punctuated by dramatic falls, all of which she overcame. Her story is one of power, politics, love, greed and scandal in an England caught between the Dark Ages and the Norman invasion of 1066. Num Pages: 288 pages, ill. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240. The Woman Who Shaped the Events of 1066. 288 pages, ill. Emma was one of England's most remarkable queens: a formidable woman who made her mark on a Europe beset by Vikings. She was a survivor: her life was punctuated by dramatic falls, all of which she overcame. Her story is one of power, politics, love, greed and scandal in an England caught between the Dark Ages and the Norman invasion of 1066. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD1; HBLC. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747579687
- ISBN
- 9780747579687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.95
€ 19.99
€ 15.95
Paperback. Bill Edrich was regarded as one of the exciting cricket discoveries of his generation. Playing for Middlesex at county level, Edrich surged onto the England scene in 1938 when he scored 1,000 runs. This book relates the story behind this achievement and distils the measure of Edrich's courage as a cricketer. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; BGS; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752444345
- ISBN
- 9780752444345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.57
€ 19.99
€ 18.57