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Paperback. The author records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. This title tells her story. Num Pages: 310 pages, photographs (black and white). BIC Classification: 1FPC; BM; HBJF; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434. A Memoir. 310 pages, illustrations. The author records her life from her early years as the daughter of Chinese diplomats in Switzerland, to her girlhood at an elite middle school in Beijing, to her adolescent experience as a Red Guard and later as a laborer on a pig farm in the remote northern wilderness. This title tells her story. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPC; BM; HBJF; WQY. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
First Edition, 15th Anniversary Edition with a New
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276024
ISBN
9780520276024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 10 black and white photographs, 4 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPFC; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252081514
ISBN
9780252081514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.47

Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 10 black and white photographs, 4 charts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPFC; KNXB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 281 x 28. Weight in Grams: 712.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252040023
ISBN
9780252040023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.41

Paperback. As the first studio film to deal directly with the enormity of the Holocaust, "Schindler's List" attempts to provide the popular imagination with a narrative about the Holocaust. This work discusses a variety of issues including the representation of history by cinema and popular culture, and the right to dramatize the 'unrepresentable'. Num Pages: 264 pages, 29 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Edition
, 2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253210982
ISBN
9780253210982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 25.97

Paperback. Time after time during the Vietnam War, the United States sent Vietnamese spies and commandos behind enemy lines only to have them killed, captured or compromised into reporting back false information. This is a sobering account of the disastrous secret programme. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 358 pages, 25 photographs, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JWH; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of Kansas United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700611478
ISBN
9780700611478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.34

Hardcover. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India were both concerned. The CIA knew it needed to gather more information, but had few ways of achieving this. This text chronicles the effort to plant a sensing device on a Himalayan peak in order to listen in on China. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 28 photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FPC; 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JPSH; JWMN; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612239
ISBN
9780700612239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. Available now in paperback, this is the thrilling story of the brains behind those who helped Britain win WW2. A sister story to Bletchley Park and Enigma. Num Pages: 416 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBLW; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349123400
ISBN
9780349123400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.31

Hardcover. The Papacy is an international power that many nations have viewed with suspicion, and not a few have spied upon. Ranging across two centuries of world history, this study seeks to throw open the Vatican's doors to reveal the startling but little-known world of espionage in a sacred place. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1DSV; 3JH; 3JJ; HBT; HRCC7; HRCX8; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 689.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612147
ISBN
9780700612147
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.11

Paperback. Provides an account of American intelligence activities during the era of the Revolutionary War, from 1765 to 1783, while describing the intelligence sources and methods used and the ways our Founding Fathers learned and practiced their intelligence role. Num Pages: 336 pages, 22 black & white illustrations, 22 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBWF; JWKF; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Georgetown University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781626162587
ISBN
9781626162587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875654386
ISBN
9780875654386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.69

Paperback. Explores the island through two different environments: from the founding of the monastery there by Saint Carthage to the use of the island as a place of detention, punishment and undignified death. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781845889104
ISBN
9781845889104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.51

Paperback. In Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC; HBTB; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362722
ISBN
9780822362722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.21

Hardback. In Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC; HBTB; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362562
ISBN
9780822362562
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.12

Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, 35 B&W photos. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781510715868
ISBN
9781510715868
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.45

Hardback. Telling the story of the introduction of Christianity to a provincial region in China where European missionaries shared the poverty and isolation of their Chinese flocks, this text shows the influence that the missionaries had in Shandong in matters of spirit and flesh. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; HBJF; HBLL; HRCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742511637
ISBN
9780742511637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 172.25

Paperback. Combining ethnography, history, and social theory, this book exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced German's conceptions of modernity and national culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226068916
ISBN
9780226068916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. Documents an alternative tradition of American protest by linking working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals. This book reveals how ordinary rural citizens in the south used the resources and their shared faith to defend their agrarian livelihoods amid the political and economic upheaval of the first half of 20th century. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 b&w, 4 Maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; HRCX7. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252077036
ISBN
9780252077036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.38

Paperback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750942539
ISBN
9780750942539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.35

Hardback. Offers an introduction to the Lebanon's fractious politics and a portrait of a people that continue to rise again and again from the ashes. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBL; HBJF1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845117351
ISBN
9781845117351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.75

Paperback. An evocative history of long frustration and ultimate failure, A Spirited Resistance tells of a creative people, whose insights, magic, and ritual add a much-needed dimension to our understanding of the American Indian. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 288 pages, 11, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801846090
ISBN
9780801846090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.86

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