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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. Includes the definitive report from the Presidential Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction Intelligence and the most revealing official investigations and statements that answer the question of how the United States could go to war on false premises. Num Pages: 704 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 43. Weight in Grams: 785. Clean copy in good to very good condition.
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRF0000482
ISBN
9781586483616
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691174853
ISBN
9780691174853
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.89

Hardback. Demonstrates that Polybius' work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and interest. This book shows how Polybius contrived to tailor his historiography for multiple audiences, comprising his fellow Greeks, whose freedom Rome had usurped in his own generation, and the Roman conquerors. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 343 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
343
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520237643
ISBN
9780520237643
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.99
€ 64.94

Hardcover. Unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: BGB; HBJK; HBLW; KCZ; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674368132
ISBN
9780674368132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.27

Paperback. Presents a study of the educational system for the Greeks of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, and a window to the vast panorama of educational practices in the Greco-Roman world. This book describes how people learned, taught, and practiced literate skills, how schools functioned, and what the curriculum comprised. Editor(s): Cribiore, Raffaella. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691122526
ISBN
9780691122526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 46.67

hardcover. Presents an introductory history of India with an account which begins before the period of British rule, and pursues the continuities since then. This book provides coverage ranging from Mughal India to post-independence Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, with a focus on the 'ordinary' people of India and South Asia. Num Pages: 420 pages, 25 black & white halftones, 11 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415214834
ISBN
9780415214834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.01

Hardback. Intended for general readers as well as scholars, this book extends the boundaries of classics and anthropology, forming a model of the sensitive work that can be done to illuminate how deeply animals are imbricated in human history. Translator(s): Fox, Matthew. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 170 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First Edition, With a New Preface and Appendix
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273405
ISBN
9780520273405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 46.46

Paperback. Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. This title provides a startling view into the Jim Crow South where the precarious and subordinate position of women linked black and white anti-rape activists together in fragile political alliances. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFE; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674061859
ISBN
9780674061859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.85

Paperback. An invaluable guide to the life of the celts in Ireland -- concise, accurate, informative and heavily-illustrated. Illustrator(s): Lizatovic, Josip. Num Pages: 96 pages, b&w photographs & illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBLA; YQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 134 x 7. Weight in Grams: 178. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
O'Brien Press
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
4th Edition
SKU
KSS0002019
ISBN
9780862785635
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. With annotated footnotes, this work explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. It also includes an introduction that provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. Num Pages: 147 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
147
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780814747933
ISBN
9780814747933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Hardback. The Many Meanings of Poverty is about poverty in a colonial context--it argues that the cultural meanings of poverty defined social compacts that served to bolster and undermine the sources of colonialism. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 tables, 4 figures, 10 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSE; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804751780
ISBN
9780804751780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.69

Hardback. Hagiography,or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints' lives that were made in medieval Europe. Num Pages: 455 pages, 8 color illustrations, 149 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; AKLB; DSB; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 264 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1058.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
455
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780520223202
ISBN
9780520223202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.61
€ 53.80

Paperback. Featuring eight essays and many images from the New York Public Library, this volume traces Russia's development from an insular, medieval, liturgical realm centred on Old Muscovy into a modern, secular, world power embodied in cosmopolitan St Petersburg. Editor(s): Whittaker, Cynthia Hyla. Num Pages: 224 pages, 69 color illustrations, 69 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3J; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 962.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674012783
ISBN
9780674012783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.27

Hardback. The volume brings together 330 documents from the reign of King Alexander III of Scotland, a key period in the history of the medieval kingdom, in one scholarly and accessible edition. Editor(s): Neville, Cynthia J.; Simpson, Grant. Series: Regesta Regum Scottorum. Num Pages: 384 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638. Regesta Regum Scottorum Vol 4 Part 1. Series: Regesta Regum Scottorum. 384 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Neville, Cynthia J.; Simpson, Grant. The volume brings together 330 documents from the reign of King Alexander III of Scotland, a key period in the history of the medieval kingdom, in one scholarly and accessible edition. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLC1. Dimension: 248 x 163 x 23. Weight: 652.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748627325
ISBN
9780748627325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.54
€ 163.99

Paperback. This ambitious book, newly available in paperback, examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBLC1; HBTB; LNSH3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408. 264 pages, 2. This ambitious book, newly available in paperback, examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBLC1; HBTB; LNSH3. Dimension: 157 x 234 x 15. Weight: 408.
Publisher
Edinburgh Up
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748654383
ISBN
9780748654383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.23

Hardback. This ambitious book examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. Num Pages: 264 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639588
ISBN
9780748639588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.47
€ 102.99

Hardback. A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household Series: The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAL; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 28. Weight in Grams: 642.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300197945
ISBN
9780300197945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.73
€ 68.43

paperback. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada, showing how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war. Series: Themes in Canadian History. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSC; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 255.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780802079299
ISBN
9780802079299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

hardcover. With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada, showing how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war. Series: Themes in Canadian History. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSC; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802009647
ISBN
9780802009647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. Presents fresh perspectives on eighteenth-century literature. This book presents debates on subjects such as the public sphere, travel and exploration, scientific rhetoric, gender and the book trade, and historical versus literary perceptions of life on London streets. Editor(s): Wall, Cynthia. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405101189
ISBN
9781405101189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.55

Paperback. In Julius Caesar's final years, the city of Rome is steeped in power, greed, betrayal, and political intrigue. Few periods of human history reverberate through popular culture in the twenty-first century like that of ancient Rome - especially the turbulent years leading up to Caesar's death in 44 BC. Editor(s): Cyrino, Monica Silveira. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405167758
ISBN
9781405167758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.46

Hardback. In Julius Caesar's final years, the city of Rome is steeped in power, greed, betrayal, and political intrigue. Few periods of human history reverberate through popular culture in the twenty-first century like that of ancient Rome - especially the turbulent years leading up to Caesar's death in 44 BC. Editor(s): Cyrino, Monica Silveira. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405167765
ISBN
9781405167765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.94

Hardback. First modern critical edition of one of the most important and popular texts on the Crusades to survive. Editor(s): Kempf, D.; Bull, M. G. Num Pages: 195 pages, 2, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings, 1 black and white, 1 lin. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2ADL; 3H; DSBB; HBJF1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 171 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843838081
ISBN
9781843838081
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Hardcover. After the Crimean War, when photographers were reporting from the field of military conflict for the first time, coverage of the American Civil War and Franco-Prussian War followed, as did the Balkan wars of 1876-78. This book offers remarkable photographs of the time, showing all manner of aspects of the Serbian campaigns, including uniforms. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: 1DVWYS; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 303 x 14. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Helion and Company
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909982246
ISBN
9781909982246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.29

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