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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. Everyone has heard of Ramesses the Great - but what is the truth behind the legend? This book explores the life and times of Egypt's greatest king. Ramesses II was the archetypal Egyptian pharoah: a mighty warrior, an extravagant builder and the father of scores of children. His monuments and image were to be found in every corner of the empire. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16pp b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDAE; BGH; HBJF; HBJH; HBLA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140280975
ISBN
9780140280975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.77

Paperback. In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. This book presents a picture of daily life - marriage and the home, work and play, grooming and religion - viewed from a female perspective. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16pp line drawings, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDA; HBJH; HBLA; HDD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140175967
ISBN
9780140175967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 17.93

Paperback. The Romans regarded Cleopatra as 'fatale monstrum', a tyrant to be crushed. Pascal said the shape of her nose changed the history of the world. Shakespeare and Tiepolo (and Elizabeth Taylor) portrayed her as an icon of tragic beauty. But who was Cleopatra, really? This biography discusses about Cleopatra. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16pp colour plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; BGH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861979018
ISBN
9781861979018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman - defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing in men's clothes and even wearing a false beard. Combining archaeological and historical evidence from a range of sources, this book strips away the myths and misconceptions and restores the female pharaoh to her rightful place. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16pp b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDA; BGH; HBG; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140244649
ISBN
9780140244649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.87

Paperback. This text contends that the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia have potentially threatened the essence of NATO by forcing the alliance to take on the role of peacekeeper without adequately allowing it to examine the role the alliance wants to or should play in a largely post-communist world. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 1QFN; HBJD; HBLW3; HBW; JPSN; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742510227
ISBN
9780742510227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.43

Hardback. This text contends that the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia have potentially threatened the essence of NATO by forcing the alliance to take on the role of peacekeeper without adequately allowing it to examine the role the alliance wants to or should play in a largely post-communist world. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 1QFN; HBJD; HBLW3; HBW; JPSN; JWLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742510210
ISBN
9780742510210
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.60

paperback. In 203 AD a group of Christians in Carthage were sentenced to death. One of these, a young mother, wrote a diary while awaiting execution. This narrative is the focus of this work which studies the conflict that resulted in her martyrdom and places it in an intellectual and social context. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA; HRC; HRKP; J. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415918374
ISBN
9780415918374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.02

Hardback. Compulsively readable, Rome's Christian Empress is the first full-length work to give this fascinating and complex ruler her due. Num Pages: 248 pages, 20, 1 colour illustrations, 11 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings, 7. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; AN; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421417004
ISBN
9781421417004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.22

Paperback. Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how single, free women navigated life in a busy slave-encrusted river-port town before, during, and after the Civil War. It examines how single women coped with life unencumbered, or unprotected, by husbands. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820349725
ISBN
9780820349725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.88

Paperback. Through data gathered on thousands of people, as well as hundreds of memoirs and autobiographies, this volume tells myriad intersecting stories of how Americans born between 1776 and 1830 reinvented themselves and their society in politics, economics, reform, religion, and culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674006638
ISBN
9780674006638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.75

Paperback. Editor(s): Kornbluh, Joyce L. Num Pages: 464 pages, contemporary cartoons & graphics. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBLW; HBTB; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 181 x 30. Weight in Grams: 882.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780850366518
ISBN
9780850366518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.76

Paperback. Chronicles the history of the United States from the end of World War II, through the Cold War and post-Cold War eras, to the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to President Obama in 2009. Series: A History of US. Num Pages: 304 pages, 385 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJ; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 231 x 191 x 15. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
4 Rev ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199735532
ISBN
9780199735532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.04

Hardback. Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HRQC5; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801864995
ISBN
9780801864995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.67

Hardback.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691162591
ISBN
9780691162591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.56

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691176376
ISBN
9780691176376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Paperback. Exploring issues of gender in Tang-dynasty literature and culture, Jowen Tung draws on a comprehensive range of historical, literary and social texts to unravel the complex mechanisms of one of the world's oldest patriarchal systems. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLC; JFHF; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847695133
ISBN
9780847695133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.11

Hardcover. The Prussian province of Saxony-where the Communist uprising of March 1921 took place and two Combat Leagues (Wehrverbande) were founded (the right-wing Stahlhelm and the Social Democratic Reichsbanner) - is widely recognized as a politically important region in this period of German history. Series: Studies in Germany History. Num Pages: 346 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845454609
ISBN
9781845454609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.17

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3, 3 charts. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 167 x 24. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801451591
ISBN
9780801451591
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.72

Hardcover. This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945.. Translator(s): Hill, Victoria W. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536. Nazi Fascism, Inner Emigration, and Exile. 272 pages, Illustrations. This book analyzes the highly complex interconnections among the cultural-political concepts of various ideological groups and asks why the most artistically ambitious art forms were viewed as politically important by all cultured (or even semi-cultured) Germans in the period from 1933 to 1945. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 20. Weight: 536. Translator(s): Hill, Victoria W.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857455901
ISBN
9780857455901
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.60

Paperback. First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; JPA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415394154
ISBN
9780415394154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.02

Paperback. Series: The Princeton History of the Ancient World. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 halftone. 14 line illus. 18 tables. 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 32. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691173146
ISBN
9780691173146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; HBAH; HBJH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780816648337
ISBN
9780816648337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

hardcover. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JH; HBJH; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804799140
ISBN
9780804799140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.57

Paperback. Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meagre foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. In this book, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant yet flawed man. Series: Jewish Lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 black-&-white illustration. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV4; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300198324
ISBN
9780300198324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.40

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