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Paperback. Focuses on key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics - with dramatically insightful results. The authors also suggests lessons for today's military, from counter terrorist strategy and military manpower planning to the use of private military companies in Afghanistan and Iraq. Num Pages: 432 pages, 23 line drawings, 21 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBW; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226071640
ISBN
9780226071640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.27

Hardcover. Focuses on key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics - with dramatically insightful results. The authors also suggests lessons for today's military, from counter terrorist strategy and military manpower planning to the use of private military companies in Afghanistan and Iraq. Num Pages: 432 pages, 23 line drawings, 21 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBW; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226071633
ISBN
9780226071633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.21
€ 44.59

Paperback. The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. Num Pages: 672 pages, Illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDU; 3JJF; HBG; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 44. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007519743
ISBN
9780007519743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.88

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198310204
ISBN
9780198310204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.71

Hardback. The Two-Can Discovery Guides series is a fantastic way to discover the worlds of history, nature and science. The book is filled with activities that challenge kids to try out ideas for themselves. Quiz questions encourage kids to look closely at each page, and this series is perfect for either home or school use. Series: Two-Can Discovery Guides (Hardcover). Num Pages: 32 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 278 x 233 x 9. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Two-Can Publishers United States
Number of pages
32
Condition
New
SKU
V9781587282355
ISBN
9781587282355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.49

paperback. Cengage Advantage Books: the Earth and its Peoples, Volume II: Since 1500: A Global History. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wadsworth Publishing United States
Edition
Advance
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781285445700
ISBN
9781285445700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 125.67

Paperback. Recognizing that factors outside the continent affected European history, the authors highlight Europe's place in the world throughout the narrative and in the primary source feature, "The Global Record." It is distinguished for its definition of Europe that includes Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and European frontiers. Num Pages: 560 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QFH; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 695.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cengage Learning, Inc United States
Edition
7th Edition
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9781133610151
ISBN
9781133610151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 125.82

Paperback. CfE Higher History Practice Papers for SQA Exams will help you to prepare for the look and feel of the exam. All the papers will provide extensive practice and reflect the type and level of questions students are likely to meet; the formats of different question papers and assessment methods; and the type of marking schemes used by the SQA. Series: Practice Papers. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: 4KST; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 193 x 23. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Leckie & Leckie
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007590957
ISBN
9780007590957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.54

Hardback. On 9 October 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara, Marxist guerrilla leader and hero of the Cuban Revolution, was captured and executed by Bolivian forces. When the Guevara family learned from the front pages that Che was dead, they decided to say nothing. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509517756
ISBN
9781509517756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.43

Paperback. Editor(s): Prontera, Grazia; Aschauer, Wolfgang. Num Pages: 284 pages, 28 b/w ills, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HBG; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Helion & Company United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911096917
ISBN
9781911096917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.01

Hardback. Between 1935 and 1938 the celebrated photographer Roman Vishniac explored the cities and villages of Eastern Europe, capturing life in the Jewish shtetlekh of Poland, Romania, Russia, and Hungary. This book is devoted to a subject Vishniac especially loved, and one whose mystery and spontaneity he captured with particular poignancy: children. Num Pages: 156 pages, 69 duotones. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJ; AJB; AJCP; HBG; HBLW; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 950.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
156
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520221871
ISBN
9780520221871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; JPFC; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Encounter Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594038990
ISBN
9781594038990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.92

paperback. From Abdul Kassem Ismail, the tenth-century Persian who never went anywhere without his library, this title takes aim at the pretensions of official history and illuminates moments and heroes that we have all but forgotten. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141975986
ISBN
9780141975986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPC; 3H; HBG; HBJD; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118880074
ISBN
9781118880074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.52

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPC; 3H; HBG; HBJD; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118879993
ISBN
9781118879993
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.68

Hardback. The biggest untapped market in the world? The last great communist threat? The free-trade partner? The human rights scourge? This text provides a front-row seat to the memorable scenes in the American debate over China policy since 1978. Editor(s): Kennedy, Scott. Num Pages: 368 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; HBG; HBJF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742517851
ISBN
9780742517851
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.09

Paperback. Presents a distillation of what every general reader and beginning student should know about the history of traditional Chinese civilization. This book weaves together all aspects of Chinese life and culture, broadly surveying general history, socioeconomic organization, political institutions, religion and thought, and art and literature. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBG; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 184 x 111 x 13. Weight in Grams: 159.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804709583
ISBN
9780804709583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.28

Hardback. Exploring as to how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world, this work shows that, there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3D; DSBB; HBG; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 31. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st edition
SKU
V9780199262892
ISBN
9780199262892
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 336.05

Paperback. This study offers an overview of Jewish conditions in medieval Western Christendom, and discusses the changing patterns of Christian-Jewish polemical confrontation during the 12th and 13th centuries. Dahan analyzes the common literary genres through which Christians attempted to convert Jews. Translator(s): Gladding, Jody. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBLC; HRAF; HRCM; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268008307
ISBN
9780268008307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HRC; JHBT; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801483868
ISBN
9780801483868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Hardback. Is there a War on Christmas? Historically, there is and always has been. This book surveys the history of the world's most popular festival and the never-ending battles it has engendered ever since its hotly-contested invention in the Roman Empire. Num Pages: 312 pages, 21. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; HRCR; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 26. Weight in Grams: 606.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190499006
ISBN
9780190499006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.33

Hardback. A fact-filled journey through 100 years of world history, exploring famous people and events in addition to lesser-known historical happenings. 100 Amazing Years presents a concise, punchy analysis of years and personalities which instigated big changes and were particularly formative in the making of the modern world. Series: Whitaker's. Num Pages: 304 pages, full colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 241 x 313 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1576.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472932945
ISBN
9781472932945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Hardcover. Deriving from the first international conference of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Black Sea Studies, this volume reviews and discusses the elements on which the chronology used in Black Sea archaeology and history in the period c 400-100 BC is built up. It also includes amphora and amphora stamp chronologies. Editor(s): Stolba, Vladimir; Hannestad, Lise. Num Pages: 360 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1QSK; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 177 x 246 x 26. Weight in Grams: 962.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9788779341326
ISBN
9788779341326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.81

Paperback. A study of Christian religions and churches in Europe at the time of the Second World War. Series: Occupation in Europe. Num Pages: 640 pages, 20 bw illus. BIC Classification: HBG; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845208226
ISBN
9781845208226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.78

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