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Paperback. Having established laws removing many children from the marketplace, turn-of-the-century America was discovering new, sentimental criteria to determine a child's monetary worth. This book traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically 'useless' and emotionally 'priceless,' from the late 1800s to the 1930s. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
294
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691034591
ISBN
9780691034591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. Series: Legacy Editions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JHB; KFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231183345
ISBN
9780231183345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.01

Paperback. Series: Legacy Editions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JHB; KFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231183352
ISBN
9780231183352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. The ending of absolute, centralized monarchy and the beginning of political combat between nobles and commoners make the years 1787 to 1788 the first stage of the French Revolution. The author examines how the French people became engaged in a movement of opposition that culminated in demands for the public's role in government. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 518 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
518
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025349
ISBN
9780674025349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.97
€ 131.07

paperback. Considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to show larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory. Series: Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: AN; APFA; DSG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1062.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253212924
ISBN
9780253212924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.45

Hardcover. Num Pages: 217 pages, colour & b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: 1DND; AMKL; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 302 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1146.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Nationalmuseet Denmark
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776021382
ISBN
9788776021382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Hardcover. Num Pages: 157 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DN; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 982.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776021894
ISBN
9788776021894
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.68

Paperback. Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for "Oriental goods" took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey's boardwalks to the segregated South. Bald's history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBLW; JFFN; JFSL; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674503854
ISBN
9780674503854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.57

Paperback. A history of some of the sailing ships that have called the Bristol Channel home. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWS; HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165. .
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445664002
ISBN
9781445664002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.09

Paperback. Had the pacifist International Solidarity Movement not been in Gaza at the time, the world would have been deprived of a detailed account from the inside, having instead to rely on the generalised accounts of news agencies reporting from outside the Strip. This volume contains a direct eye-witness account of Gaza's last bloodbath. Translator(s): Filippin, Daniela. Num Pages: 178 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JMC; BJ; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172. Stay Human. 178 pages, Illustrations. Had the pacifist International Solidarity Movement not been in Gaza at the time, the world would have been deprived of a detailed account from the inside, having instead to rely on the generalised accounts of news agencies reporting from outside the Strip. This volume contains a direct eye-witness account of Gaza's last bloodbath. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JMC; BJ; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight: 170. Translator(s): Filippin, Daniela.
Publisher
Kube Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
178
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847740199
ISBN
9781847740199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. New, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Editor(s): Rowland, Ingrid D.; Howe, Thomas Noble. Num Pages: 352 pages, 110 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDA; ACG; AMA; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 277 x 213 x 20. Weight in Grams: 996. Ten Books; New English Translation with Commentary and Illustrations. 333 pages, many b/w figs. Editor(s): Rowland, Ingrid D.; Howe, Thomas Noble. New, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1QDA; ACG; AMA; HBJD; HBLA. Dimension: 277 x 213 x 20. Weight: 996.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521002929
ISBN
9780521002929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 40.07

Hardcover. Series: A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, tables, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935850
ISBN
9780813935850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.43

Paperback. Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to history as he saw the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace, and he understood why. His perspective was from inside the Soviet system. His recollections in this book offer an extraordinary window into Soviet decisions and calculations. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBTW; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817914752
ISBN
9780817914752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.09

Hardcover. Vitaly Leonidovich Katayev was an eyewitness to the arms race accelerating at an absurd and inexplicable pace. His perspective was from inside the Soviet system, in an office that was devoted to analysis of arms control and defence matters. His recollections in this book offer an extraordinary window into Soviet decisions and calculations. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817914745
ISBN
9780817914745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBWN; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 307 x 18. Weight in Grams: 854.
Publisher
Histoire and Collections
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9782352503705
ISBN
9782352503705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.92
€ 51.66

Paperback. Vita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women. Her grandmother, daughter of an old-clothes pedlar, made her fortune as a dancer and had a scandalous affair with an English diplomat. Their illegitimate daughter Victoria, Vita's mother, spent her childhood hidden in a convent. This book tells their stories. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784871161
ISBN
9781784871161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780567599346
ISBN
9780567599346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 192.20

Paperback. Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal motivation that fueled his own study of the Bible and systematically illustrates how its precepts became the framework for societal structure throughout the last millennium. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 32. Weight in Grams: 490.
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781595555458
ISBN
9781595555458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.47

Paperback. Puts to rest the unfounded allegations surrounding Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Num Pages: 176 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 10. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819178213
ISBN
9780819178213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 130 pages, b/w illus & maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9780939923779
ISBN
9780939923779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.75

Paperback. A pioneering history of personal hygiene and body-care, from the earliest times to the present day. Num Pages: 470 pages, 23 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: HB; HBTB; MBNH1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 131 x 199 x 33. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199532087
ISBN
9780199532087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.63

Though millions of women drive regularly, the image of the flighty "woman driver" continues to stigmatize their abilities. Scharff travels back in time to explore how the first automobiles collided with cultural and sexual notions of feminine nature and how women have influenced the car industry as a whole. Num Pages: 220 pages, b&w illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; TRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826313959
ISBN
9780826313959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.49

Paperback. While it is true that Catherine the Great shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by stallion. Unhappily married to the Grand Duke Peter, she turned her attentions to a certain Sergey Saltykov who fathered the future Tsar Paul I. This biography reveals this extraordinary woman. Num Pages: 592 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JF; BGR; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 38. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099462347
ISBN
9780099462347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.05

Paperback. Tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. This book illustrates how the women of the 1950s yearned for the innovative technology of the era to liberate them from repetitive drudgery. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241958049
ISBN
9780241958049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.01

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