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Paperback. The death penalty arouses more passion than almost any other issue. This comprehensive account of the death penalty in the United States tells the story of dramatic changes, over four centuries, in the ways capital punishment has been administered and experienced. Num Pages: 408 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBLW; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010833
- ISBN
- 9780674010833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.85
€ 36.99
€ 31.85
Hardcover. Series: Modern Jewish History. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633341
- ISBN
- 9780815633341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.79
€ 44.79
Hardcover. Tells the story of six young men and the organizations they founded between 1939 and 1948 that would set the stage for the militant Zionist activism. This book provides the story of the role the Bergson group played in raising American public consciousness of Jewish and Zionist concerns. Translator(s): Ordan, Dena. Series: Modern Jewish History. Num Pages: 292 pages, bibliography, glossary, index, 22 black-&-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBH; BGH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630630
- ISBN
- 9780815630630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.66
€ 37.66
Paperback. Offering a view of Jewish society and culture, the essays in this volume shed light on a little-known chapter of Jewish history. Written by scholars from Israel, Turkey, Europe and the United States, it presents a broad historical canvas that brings together different perspectives and viewpoints. Editor(s): Levy, Avigdor. Series: Modern Jewish History. Num Pages: 301 pages, 4 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBTB; HRJ; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629412
- ISBN
- 9780815629412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.26
€ 45.26
Hardcover. The latest from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography-authoritative and accessible biographies of more than 800 people who shaped national life and who died from 2001 onwards, with over 250 portrait images. This volume extends the coverage of the Oxford DNB, first published as a 60-volume print set in 2004. Editor(s): Goldman, Lawrence. Num Pages: 1280 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGH; GBCB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 196 x 53. Weight in Grams: 2022.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199562442
- ISBN
- 9780199562442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 241.97
€ 241.97
Hardcover. This volume presents nineteenth-century diplomacy as both a real world experience and a structural element in international relations. All sixteen essays share an interest in diplomatic culture and its relevance to official and sometimes not so official interstate relations from the Congress of Vienna to the outbreak of the First World War. Editor(s): Mosslang, Markus; Riotte, Torsten. Series: Studies of the German Historical Institute, London. Num Pages: 486 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBJD1; HBLL; JPSD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 32. Weight in Grams: 719.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199548675
- ISBN
- 9780199548675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.85
€ 181.85
Hardcover. This completes Robin Law's highly acclaimed edition of the letter-books of the Royal African Company, the most substantial body of source material on English trade in West Africa in the late seventeenth century. The correspondence provides massively detailed day-to-day documentation of local operations and interactions. Editor(s): Law, Robin. Series: Fontes Historiae Africanae, New Series: Sources of African History. Num Pages: 719 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1HFD; HBJH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1184.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 719
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197263921
- ISBN
- 9780197263921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 202.40
€ 202.40
Paperback. John Ferling's masterful John Adams: A Life is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times. Num Pages: 544 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195398663
- ISBN
- 9780195398663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.31
€ 26.31
Paperback. Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This volume tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of the unprecedented calamaties of World War II. Series: Oxford History of the United States. Num Pages: 528 pages, 16pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 770.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 506
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195168938
- ISBN
- 9780195168938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.18
€ 25.18
Paperback. A story of a young Jewish girl's coming-of-age during the tragic years of the Holocaust. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGA; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195035001
- ISBN
- 9780195035001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.72
€ 20.99
€ 19.72
Paperback. An eloquent revelation that touches the foundations of what man is. Neither despairing nor conventionally hopeful, The Survivor describes the most terrible events in human memory. But what emerges finally is an image of man stubbornly equal to the worst that can happen. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 185 x 19. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 50061st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195027037
- ISBN
- 9780195027037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.26
€ 32.26
A stunningly original and inspiring illustrated history of America's founding ideals and how they have been understood from colonial times to the present, by one of America's most gifted historians. Series: America: a Cultural History. Num Pages: 864 pages, numerous colour and halftone illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 182 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2268.
- Number of pages
- 860
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195162530
- ISBN
- 9780195162530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.66
€ 84.66
Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 287.
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195326550
- ISBN
- 9780195326550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.06
€ 39.06
Paperback. This work is an analysis of the ideology, causal patterns, and means employed in the Nazi genocide against the Jews. It argues that the events of the genocide compel reconsideration of such moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, and the role of knowledge in ethical decisions. Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629931
- ISBN
- 9780815629931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.28
€ 27.28
Hardcover. These documents illuminate the conduct of British trade in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain's Atlantic empire. Detailing the commercial and plantation interests of two Bristol families, the volume sheds light on how fortunes were created by merchants striving for social improvement. Editor(s): Morgan, Kenneth O. Series: Records of Social and Economic History New Series. Num Pages: 726 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBJQ; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1303.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 726
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780197264058
- ISBN
- 9780197264058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.30
€ 173.30
Hardcover. This book, based on extensive historical research and anthropological fieldwork in contemporary Jerusalem, details the multiple ways in which space, identity, and alterity are experienced, produced and contested by the habitants of this conflicted urban center. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJPG; 3JMG; HBTQ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633488
- ISBN
- 9780815633488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.21
€ 45.21
Hardcover. The story of the Civil War as told through the Wray Collection's many one-of-a-kind objects housed at the Atlanta History Center. More than six hundred of the rarest Confederate artifacts, including firearms, weapons, flags, uniforms, and accoutrements, reveal historical truths in their detail and help to contextualize the battles. Num Pages: 448 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; WCK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 261 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820346854
- ISBN
- 9780820346854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Hardcover. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; BGH; HBJF1; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 774.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633587
- ISBN
- 9780815633587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.06
€ 63.06
Hardcover. The recent political history of Lebanon has been defined by the legacy of war. While much has been written about the tragedy of the civil war, this title is the first book focused on the evolution of the postwar political scene. Editor(s): El-Husseini, Rola. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF1; JWDG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815633044
- ISBN
- 9780815633044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.75
€ 56.75
Hardcover. A major study of the Holland Park Circle, this is both a narrative of the lives, works and influence of the artists, architects and their patrons and a perceptive analysis of the subtle relationships between high Victorian taste and mercantile values. This was the period of art as great fashion. Num Pages: 312 pages, 35 colour plates, 100 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; ACV; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 265 x 201 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1252.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300081640
- ISBN
- 9780300081640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.99€ 44.54
€ 55.99
€ 44.54