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Hardback. Editor(s): Hutter, Manfred. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
V&R unipress GmbH Germany
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9783847101581
ISBN
9783847101581
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.90
€ 57.46

Hardback. The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. This book locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm's employ. Series: Princeton Analytical Sociology Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 12 line illus. 8 tables. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1FKA; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLH; KCLT; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159065
ISBN
9780691159065
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.07
€ 39.95

Paperback. Series: Princeton Analytical Sociology Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1FKA; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLH; KCLT; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691173795
ISBN
9780691173795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Paperback. Middle Easterners struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. The author presents an analysis of Islam's place in Middle East and integrates the medieval and modern history of the region to show how the sacred and secular are tightly interwoven in its political and intellectual life. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JFSR2; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
First Edition,Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520246911
ISBN
9780520246911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.23

Hardcover. During the Cold War, Chinese Americans struggled to gain political influence in the United States. This book looks at the divergent ways that Chinese Americans in these two cities balanced domestic and international pressures during the tense Cold War era. Num Pages: 328 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226193564
ISBN
9780226193564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.43

Paperback. The life and times of one of our most enchanting artists; a twentieth-century fairy tale, lovingly remembered and luminously told. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 25 x 25 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393343984
ISBN
9780393343984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.99

Paperback. Presents a history of Colombia's "long twentieth century," from the civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the late twentieth. This book explains Colombia's political history, discussing key leaders, laws, parties, and ideologies; corruption and inefficiency; and the paradoxical nature of government institutions. Translator(s): Stoller, Richard. Series: Latin America in Translation. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 22. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822337676
ISBN
9780822337676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

Hardcover. Christopher Pastore traces how Narragansett Bay's ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn, over two centuries, transformed a marshy fractal of water and earth into a clearly defined coastline, which proved less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; RGBP; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674281417
ISBN
9780674281417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

China reconstructs supplement No. 6. A play collectively written by The Peking People's Art Theatre about a husband and wife after th liberation. 22pp
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
China Recontructs
Publication date
1953
Edition
First Edition
SKU
PT00000293
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. As a new way to conceptualize the history of computing, this book will be of great interest to historians of science, technology, and culture, as well as computer scientists and theorists. Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 456 pages, 82, 46 black & white halftones, 36 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; TJFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 255 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801880575
ISBN
9780801880575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.75

hardcover. This book examines the contest between local people, state officials, and foreigners to lay claim to urban streets, state institutions, historic monuments, and temples in Suzhou, one of China's most ancient and culturally rich metropolises, as it was transformed into a modern city. Num Pages: 344 pages, 7 figures, 19 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804753593
ISBN
9780804753593
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.45

Paperback. From an expert on the Eastern Front of World War II, this book chronicles the cataclysmic experience of the region that includes modern-day Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. Series: General Military. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 31. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472807496
ISBN
9781472807496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Paperback. Discusses the fluctuations of black suffrage in the ante-bellum North, using the 4 states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island as examples. This book offers a framework for understanding and explaining how the issue of voting rights for blacks unfolded between the drafting of the Constitution, and the end of the Civil War. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415956970
ISBN
9780415956970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 28.24

Paperback. Over the last five centuries, the development of modern weapons and warfare has created an entirely new set of challenges for practitioners in the field of military medicine. Between Flesh and Steel traces the development of military medicine from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HBW; MBX; MMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612348223
ISBN
9781612348223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. An examination of the complex inter-relationships between the Roman and Sasanid Empires, and some of their Arab allies and neighbours, during the last century before the emergence of Islam. Greg Fisher stresses the importance of a Near East dominated by Rome and Iran for the formation of early concepts of Arab identity. Series: Oxford Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 274 pages, 7 maps. BIC Classification: HBLA; HBLA1; HBLC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199679317
ISBN
9780199679317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.23

Paperback. As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Carpathian mountains. Rich in vivid characters and stories of tragedy and survival, this book illuminates the soul of a place, and the secret history of its people. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBJF; HBTB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141979229
ISBN
9780141979229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardback. From the mid-17th to the mid-19th Century, millions of Korean men trained in the arts of war to prepare not for actual combat but to sit for the state military examination (mukwa). This book provides a comprehensive socio-political history of the mukwa system. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages, 2 maps, 7 line illustrations, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFSC; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025028
ISBN
9780674025028
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. Draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give readers an intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. 6 halftones. Series: Studies in Jewish History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195130928
ISBN
9780195130928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.66

Paperback. An account of relations between the sexes and the role of myth in the transition between unconscious fantasy and cultural forms, based on studies of the mythologies of the Gimi, from the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24 halftones, 1 map, 12 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; HBJM; JFHF; JFSL; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226293813
ISBN
9780226293813
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 41.39

Hardcover. In doing so, the book highlights the conjoined history of broad transnational processes and local political change. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 226 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801899829
ISBN
9780801899829
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.15
€ 63.20

Paperback. Clavius was influential throughout Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This book uses his own publications, as well as archival materials, to trace the central role he played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Num Pages: 314 pages, 17 half-tones, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226469294
ISBN
9780226469294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.57

Hardcover. Libanius was a major figure in the fourth century East as an intellectual, a professor of rhetoric, and the friend of the emperor Julian. This book intends to remedy to that, and focuses on some unfamiliar aspects of Libanius' personality and the way he saw the world of the fourth century. Translator(s): Cribiore, Raffaella. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 147. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781382523
ISBN
9781781382523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.11

Paperback. This book provides an English translation of 12 orations (mostly unknown) of the sophist Libanius who had an important school of rhetoric in Antioch (Syria) and was one of the most influential figures in the fourth century. Translator(s): Cribiore, Raffaella. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 147. .
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781382530
ISBN
9781781382530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardback. Taiwan's relationship with China is one of the most fraught in East Asia, a key issue in the island's domestic politics and a major obstacle in Sino-American relations. This book explores the roots of the conflict in the post-war period and examines how the Nationalists consolidated their rule. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCT; 1FPCW; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744577
ISBN
9780804744577
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.16

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