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Paperback. Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This title deals with the two artists, who at the height of their powers, answer their needs to document human struggle. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BJ; HBJD; HBLW3; JFC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184. Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This title deals with the two artists, who at the height of their powers, answer their needs to document human struggle. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BJ; HBJD; HBLW3; JFC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141186337
ISBN
9780141186337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7,000 miles. This title presents an analysis of the life and institutions of 19th-century America. Editor(s): Kramnick, Isaac. Translator(s): Bevan, Gerald. Num Pages: 992 pages, chronology, notes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 42. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140447606
ISBN
9780140447606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. Providing an account of his travels, the author describes landscapes, fish, birds and animals. He recounts the history of Ireland's rulers, and tells stories of magic wells and deadly whirlpools, strange creatures and evil spirits. This work is written from the point of view of an invader and reformer. Translator(s): O'Meara, John. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
9780140444230
ISBN
9780140444230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 752 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 213 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cengage Learning, Inc United States
Edition
8th Edition
Number of pages
752
Condition
New
SKU
V9781305959873
ISBN
9781305959873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 86.16

Paperback. Focusing on the responses of writers in Shanghai to the Japanese occupation, this book corrects the postwar conception of occupied China as a field of conflict between selfless resisters and shameless collaborators by showing a complexity and ambiguity of moral choices that defies such stereotyping. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 half-tones 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJF; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Reissue
SKU
V9780804727969
ISBN
9780804727969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century. This book explores the gradual change from the medieval attitude to children, looked upon as small adults as soon as they were past infancy, to the seventeenth and eighteenth century awareness of the child as the focal point of family life. Translator(s): Baldick, Robert. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 3F; 3H; 3J; HBTB; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 33. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712674584
ISBN
9780712674584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

paperback. Focusing on the 1960s, this work addresses the question: how did it feel in that dawn to be alive? Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 35. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Pimlico
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712666657
ISBN
9780712666657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

paperback. Badly wounded at the battle of Arnhem, and then spirited from his hospital bed by the Dutch Resistance, Brigadier John Hackett spent the winter of 1944 in Nazi-occupied Holland, hidden by a Dutch family, at great risk to their own lives, in a house a stone's throw from a German military police billet. Num Pages: 224 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DDN; BGA; HBJD; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712665629
ISBN
9780712665629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.91

Paperback. 196- "Cover title. Originally published anonymously in the periodical : Revolution: Africa, Latin America, Asia, v. 1, no. 9, 1964. Paper wrappers, stapled. Commissioning organisation: by Samir Amin. p. 23-46 22 cm. Paperback. Good clean copy with tight binding." Keywords: Subjects
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Africa Research Group
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0070620
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 20.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history - 130 years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Num Pages: 448 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844137633
ISBN
9781844137633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. This book explores a historical moment in which a Middle Eastern Jewish community not only adopted a new nation, Iraq, but a new ethnicity, Arabism--and its ultimate demise. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804778756
ISBN
9780804778756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. Presents the story of how the modern, professional, spectator sport of football was born in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. This title picks apart the complex processes which forged the modern game, turning accepted wisdom on its head. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2x8pp. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553819359
ISBN
9780553819359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.91

Paperback. This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution. Num Pages: 250 pages, 21 b/w illus. 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 412. Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR. 250 pages, 21 b/w illus. 7 tables. This pioneering study explores the surprising extent and limits of the GDR's forgotten sexual revolution. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBK5. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 15. Weight: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521727617
ISBN
9780521727617
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.18

Paperback. In this book, Andrew Riggsby surveys the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBLA; LAFR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521687119
ISBN
9780521687119
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.37

Paperback. A unique and comprehensive account of attitudes to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome. Series: The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTS; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392. 288 pages. A unique and comprehensive account of attitudes to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBTS; HPCA. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 17. Weight: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521574334
ISBN
9780521574334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.77

Paperback. This book explores how Latin inscriptions were used in the Roman world and makes them accessible to students today. Num Pages: 554 pages, 100 b/w illus. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 174 x 26. Weight in Grams: 940. 554 pages, 100 b/w illus. 1 map. Explores how Latin inscriptions were used in the Roman world and makes them accessible to modern students. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA; HDDK. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 26. Weight: 1086.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
554
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521549547
ISBN
9780521549547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.75

Paperback. This book demonstrates that territoriality for humans is not an instinct, but a powerful and often indispensable geographical strategy used to control people. Series: Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBTP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521311809
ISBN
9780521311809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.75

Paperback. John Chadwick summarizes the results of research into Mycenaean Greece. Num Pages: 220 pages, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 173 x 11. Weight in Grams: 366. 220 pages, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. John Chadwick summarizes the results of research into Mycenaean Greece. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA. Dimension: 245 x 173 x 11. Weight: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521290371
ISBN
9780521290371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.55

Paperback. A study of the rise and fall of the large and powerful kingdom of Northumbria. Num Pages: 368 pages, 37 b/w illus. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYN; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 173 x 20. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521041027
ISBN
9780521041027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.21

Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0004199
ISBN
9780863222214
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The classical civilizations of Greece and Rome dominated the world for centuries and continue to intrigue and enlighten us with their inventions, whether philosophy, politics, theatre, athletics, celebrity, science or the pleasures of horse racing. This book offers an introduction to Ancient civilization. Num Pages: 720 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 538. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KKD0005748
ISBN
9780141021416
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure. Num Pages: 432 pages, B/W maps and illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KB; 1QDB; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Murray
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
paperback / softback
SKU
KKD0005696
ISBN
9780340748824
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

paperback. Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends, and history of the Blasket Islands, which are three miles off Irelands Dingle Peninsula. In her old age, Peig Sayers, 'the Queen of Gaelic storytellers', recounted her life to her son, who recorded the tale in this book. She recalls the events of her life and her simple philosophy. Translator(s): Ennis, Seamus. Num Pages: 160 pages, endpaper map. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 124 131pp. 2000 reprint. Translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1961
Publisher
Oxford University Press London
Condition
New
SKU
9780192812391
ISBN
9780192812391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 10.64

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Montoya, Maceo. Series: For Beginners. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
For Beginners
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939994646
ISBN
9781939994646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.38

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