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Paperback. A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world - the Girl Guides - and how they helped win the war. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007356324
- ISBN
- 9780007356324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. From its humble beginnings as a fur-trading outpost, Chicago has become one of the foremost centers of world finance and trade. Beginning with an overview of the city's commercial development, this book considers how key industries shaped - and were shaped by - both the local and global economies. Editor(s): Reiff, Janice L. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 halftones, 7 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBJK; HBTK; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226709369
- ISBN
- 9780226709369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.23
€ 27.99
€ 23.23
Hardcover. 282pp. 19th Century Ireland
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press Ltd Dublin
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KCBK000071
- ISBN
- 9780716526926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.00€ 28.81
€ 45.00
€ 28.81
Paperback. Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada is the first work to focus sustained and serious attention on the wider implications of Aboriginal peoples' involvement in sport. Editor(s): Forsyth, Janice; Giles, Audrey R. Num Pages: 536 pages, 8 photos; 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774824217
- ISBN
- 9780774824217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Argues that the contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural; it is distinctively modern. This book examines how the arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries. Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Num Pages: 230 pages, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTQ; HBTR; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691025711
- ISBN
- 9780691025711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.47€ 42.58
€ 53.47
€ 42.58
Paperback. This fascinating tale of the rivalries and intrigues that played out as Canada secured the Arctic illuminates an under-explored era in Canadian foreign policy. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774818681
- ISBN
- 9780774818681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. Focuses on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946. This book suggests that efforts to suppress female circumcision were tied to the continuation of slavery and the rise of commercial cotton growing in Sudan, as well as to concerns about infant mortality and maternal health. Num Pages: 440 pages, 9 halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HBS; HBJH; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123059
- ISBN
- 9780691123059
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardcover. An evocative collection of wartime accounts, quotes and stories from the First World War. Chronologically ordered, from the day war was declared on 4 August 1914, through to voices from the front, women at war, the American perspective, and ending with Armistice on 11 November 1918. Editor(s): Anderson, Janice. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 179 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Lorenz Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754831853
- ISBN
- 9780754831853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.18
€ 9.99
€ 9.18
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. Num Pages: 353 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 20 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBF; 3JJ; HBJK; HBJM; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 217 x 25. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137580498
- ISBN
- 9781137580498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.77
€ 67.77
spiral_bound. Num Pages: 408 pages, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: AB; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Pearson United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780205161621
- ISBN
- 9780205161621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 147.85
€ 147.85
Hardback. In the early twentieth century poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of China. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, this book examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFA; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152103
- ISBN
- 9780691152103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.29€ 55.72
€ 71.29
€ 55.72
Hardcover. Written by a leading historian of urban visual culture, Janet Ward's Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity demonstrates how the reunified German capital, in its bid to overcome its legacy of Cold-War division, has faced many new frontiers and boundaries on social, economic, architectural and infrastructural levels. Num Pages: 424 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 31. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 426
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230276574
- ISBN
- 9780230276574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.20
€ 140.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 273 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFFE2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520241756
- ISBN
- 9780520241756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345447630
- ISBN
- 9780345447630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.48
€ 16.99
€ 15.48
Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JF; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520240339
- ISBN
- 9780520240339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.36€ 65.36
€ 84.36
€ 65.36
Hardcover. Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metropolis. It concludes by reflecting on public speaking in the construction of the virtual city. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JFSG; YQN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218093
- ISBN
- 9780230218093
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Paperback. Tells the story of how Scottish twin sisters made one of the most important manuscript finds of the nineteenth century - an early copy of the gospels which lay hidden in the Sinai desert. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBX; 3JH; HBJF1; HBLL; HDDH; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099546542
- ISBN
- 9780099546542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 line illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691169026
- ISBN
- 9780691169026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.47€ 42.58
€ 53.47
€ 42.58
Paperback. The home of the baby boomers now provides fashion cues for a new generation of householders. This is the perfect summary of the post-war British home. Series: Britain's Heritage Series. Num Pages: 64 pages, 80. BIC Classification: HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165. .
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445665689
- ISBN
- 9781445665689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.47
€ 17.47
Paperback. Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful eyes of parents. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 56 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 149 x 5. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Shire Publications Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747812357
- ISBN
- 9780747812357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.44
€ 11.44
Paperback. Since the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a variety of other challenges, whether for sport or for livelihood. This book recounts their exploits. Num Pages: 276 pages, 2 maps, 65 photographs, chronology, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803289956
- ISBN
- 9780803289956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.63
€ 17.99
€ 17.63
Paperback. Suitable for historians of Europe, sociologists, political scientists, and those interested in French social history, this book demonstrates how French reformers grappled with social problems that are relevance and how they initiated a process that assigned to welfare state the task of achieving social cohesion within an industrialising republic. Num Pages: 344 pages, 15 b&w photos, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFF; JKSB; JPH; JPQB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3971 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822327929
- ISBN
- 9780822327929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.98
€ 32.99
€ 29.98
Hardback. Editor(s): Fleming, James; Launius, Roger D. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Num Pages: 291 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBTK; KNGV1; PDX; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319311944
- ISBN
- 9783319311944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.24
€ 161.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages, 21 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JF; HBG; HBLL; HBTB; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219845
- ISBN
- 9780300219845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.87
€ 30.99
€ 22.87