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paperback. Violet Jessop survived the sinking of both the Titanic and Britannic, and her lively and well-rounded memoir including her first-hand account of the two disasters offers the reader a unique vantage on both the catastrophes and the socioeconomic climate of the time. Editor(s): Maxtone-Graham, John. Num Pages: 276 pages, 34 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; BM; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- Special Centennial
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574093155
- ISBN
- 9781574093155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.75
€ 19.75
hardcover. The definitive biography of "The Father of Electric Traction" Series: Railroads Past & Present. Num Pages: 336 pages, 111 b&w illus. BIC Classification: BGT; TBY; THR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 185 x 28. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780253353832
- ISBN
- 9780253353832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 44.74
€ 44.99
€ 44.74
paperback. A collection of letters that chronicles a long-term friendship between two women who, despite differences of religion and ethnicity, have followed parallel paths from their first adolescent meeting in their native Chile to their lives in exile as writers, academics, and political activists in the United States. Translator(s): Morgan, Bridget M. Series: Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series. Num Pages: 198 pages, 15 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 509. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705067
- ISBN
- 9780292705067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.87
€ 20.99
€ 20.87
paperback. Offers the life story of Ernie Lopez and his account of daily life in Alcatraz and San Quentin. This book discusses how Ernie Lopez's experiences typify the harsher treatment that ethnic and minority suspects receive in the American criminal justice system, as well as how they reveal the resilience of Chicanos/as and their culture. Num Pages: 246 pages, 8 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BG; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292706835
- ISBN
- 9780292706835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.29
€ 26.99
€ 25.29
paperback. On October 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday shot it out with a gang of cattle rustlers near the O K Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. It was over in half a minute, but those thirty violent seconds turned the thirty-three-year-old Wyatt Earp into the stuff of legend. This biography tells Wyatt Earp's story. Num Pages: 39 images. BIC Classification: BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780803220584
- ISBN
- 9780803220584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.98
€ 23.99
€ 21.98
paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816644353
- ISBN
- 9780816644353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.89
€ 20.99
€ 20.89
Paperback. The remarkable life story of the first Jewish superstar athlete, by New York Times best-selling author Mark Kurlansky Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: BGS; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300192469
- ISBN
- 9780300192469
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 12.75
€ 13.00
€ 12.75
Paperback. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943, during the German occupation of France. Intellectual as well as political allies, they grew famous overnight after Paris was liberated. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BGL; FA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226000244
- ISBN
- 9780226000244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.20
€ 25.99
€ 21.20
Paperback. How much do we really know about Thomas Edison, the man who considered deriving rubber from a goldenrod plant as opposed to the genius who gave us electric light? This text gives a complex portrait of the inventor and an account of the intellectual climate of the country he worked in and changed. Num Pages: 544 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; TJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 46. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035710
- ISBN
- 9780226035710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.50
€ 40.99
€ 31.50
Hardcover. Alain L Locke, in his famous 1925 anthology "The New Negro", declared that 'the pulse of the Negro world has begun to beat in Harlem'. This biography of this extraordinarily gifted philosopher and writer, narrates the untold story of Locke's profound impact on twentieth-century America's cultural and intellectual life. Num Pages: 448 pages, 21 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BG; HPCF; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226317762
- ISBN
- 9780226317762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 78.75
€ 94.64
€ 78.75
Hardcover. This text on Bernardino considers the preacher's inflammatory role in Renaissance social issues. It takes the reader into the social underworld of early Renaissance Italy to discover how one influential figure helped to dramatically increase fear, hatred and intolerance for society's margins. Num Pages: 378 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGH; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226538549
- ISBN
- 9780226538549
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.24€ 45.68
€ 53.24
€ 45.68
Paperback. A psychological portrait of the twenty-sixth president of the United States, a man whose personal obsession with masculinity profoundly influenced the fate of a nation. This book argues that Theodore Roosevelt struggled, like many of his contemporaries, with what it meant to be a man in the modern era. Num Pages: 299 pages, 57 halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 185 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226876092
- ISBN
- 9780226876092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.84
€ 34.99
€ 27.84
Paperback. This definitive biography of Subhas Chandra Bose, the revered and controversial Indian nationalist who struggled to liberate his country from British rule before and during World War II, moves beyond the legend to reveal the impassioned life and times of the private and public man. Num Pages: 448 pages, 68 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGH; HBTR; JPFN; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 228 x 319. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674065963
- ISBN
- 9780674065963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.87
€ 35.99
€ 30.87
Hardback. Presents in a critical and scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language Editor(s): Zacharias, Greg W.; Walker, Pierre A. Series: The Complete Letters of Henry James. Num Pages: 328 pages, 7 photographs, 1 figure, 6 family trees, biographical register, symbol and abbreviations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 169 x 30. Weight in Grams: 800.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803234574
- ISBN
- 9780803234574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.23
€ 103.23
Hardcover. Translator(s): Klots, Yasha; Ufberg, Ross. Num Pages: 495 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; AN; APB; BGFA; JKVQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875804286
- ISBN
- 9780875804286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.61
€ 38.61
Paperback. Translator(s): Bachrach, David Stewart. Num Pages: 182 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 239.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300107586
- ISBN
- 9780300107586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.07
€ 20.99
€ 17.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 486 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; BTC; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813554112
- ISBN
- 9780813554112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.60
€ 42.99
€ 38.60
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
€ 33.57
€ 33.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, Black and white throughout. BIC Classification: B; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Tulika Books
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788189487935
- ISBN
- 9788189487935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.82
€ 24.99
€ 18.82
Paperback. This is a chronological study of the musical life of the Beatles, from 1956 up to 1965. The main focus is on the materials and structures of the Beatles' melodies, harmonies, counterpoint, rhythms, and the ways these portray the themes of their poetry. The book also addresses performance practice, recording procedure, historical context and more. Num Pages: 472 pages, numerous music examples and 6 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; 3JJPK; AVGP; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195141054
- ISBN
- 9780195141054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 73.36
€ 73.36
Paperback. The true story of hardship and horror in the blood and mud seen through the eyes of a teenage volunteer and his comrades in the forgotten conflicts of Salonika and Palestine, during the Great War, fighting for the freedom of small nations and in particular, Home Rule for Ireland. Then the Irish War of Independence, which helped establish a nation. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; BTM; FJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Memoirs Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909304307
- ISBN
- 9781909304307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
mass_market. A former US Navy SEAL, the author tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper kills in the history of the United States military, any branch, from 1776 to present. He also tells the story of the men of SEAL Team 3 who fought and died as brothers with him. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 106 x 28. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- William Morrow Paperbacks
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780062238863
- ISBN
- 9780062238863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 8.70
€ 16.99
€ 8.70
paperback. "Gripping, intense.. Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air]."-Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 pages of illustrations; 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; 3JMC; BTP; WSZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780393345414
- ISBN
- 9780393345414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.00
€ 17.99
€ 15.00
paperback. The explosive and compelling autobiography of Joey Barton, football's most intriguing personality, brought fully up to date Num Pages: 352 pages, 16pp colour plates. BIC Classification: BGSA; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781471147609
- ISBN
- 9781471147609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 10.27
€ 19.99
€ 10.27