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History: earliest times to present day

paperback. The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese "economic miracle" failed to notice a key point - that in pursuit of this miracle, the Japanese had turned their country into a concrete shambles. This book describes the dazzling nature of Japanese culture and its ruination. Num Pages: 448 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141010007
ISBN
9780141010007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.29

Paperback. From the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks. A maverick officer - and the only man to survive his company's wartime odyssey from bitter beginning to victorious end. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099568797
ISBN
9780099568797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Editor(s): Knodell, Alex R; Leppard, Thomas P. Series: Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology. BIC Classification: HBLA; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781795279
ISBN
9781781795279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.91

Paperback. A general historical introduction to the Muslims of Medieval Italy which presents specific information regarding social, religious, administrative, political, cultural, artistic and intellectual questions. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAX; HRH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 580. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. 336 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. A general historical introduction to the Muslims of Medieval Italy which presents specific information regarding social, religious, administrative, political, cultural, artistic and intellectual questions. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAX; HRH. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight: 580.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748620081
ISBN
9780748620081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.08

Hardback. The true story of John Duval Gluck, Jr., who in 1913 founded the Santa Claus Association, which had the sole authority to answer Santa's mail in New York City. He made the myth of Santa a reality to poor children, until a crusading charity commissioner exposed Gluck as a fraud. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 58 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJG; 5HC; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493008445
ISBN
9781493008445
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.62

Hardback. A must-read for anyone who wants to know how African-Americans have risen in national politics during the past 50 years. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BG; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Derrydale Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568330938
ISBN
9781568330938
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.74

Paperback. This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Num Pages: 208 pages, 35 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLC1; HDDM; HRQ; VXWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 171 x 13. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842173954
ISBN
9781842173954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 44.54

Hardback. Astronomy was a popular part of Victorian science, and British atronomers travelled to remote areas to watch the sun eclipsed by the moon. This book shows how the organization of science, advances in photography, and new printing technology remade the character of scientific observation. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; PDX; PGG; PGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739252
ISBN
9780804739252
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.43

Hardback. Taken from the Taliban's perspective based on local sources This is the first book to address seriously the problem of conflating the Taliban with Al-Qaeda. It is from the Taliban's perspective based on local sources. The authors are Western researchers based on the ground in Kandahar Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS4; JPS; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 151 x 36. Weight in Grams: 788.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849041546
ISBN
9781849041546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.98

Paperback. This book charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence of the Gaelic-speaking Scots who would replace them as the rulers of the North. Series: New Edinburgh History of Scotland. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 638. Series: New Edinburgh History of Scotland. 400 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. This book charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence of the Gaelic-speaking Scots who would replace them as the rulers of the North. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLC. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 28. Weight: 630.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748612345
ISBN
9780748612345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPA; JPHV; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231181105
ISBN
9780231181105
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 35.46

Hardback. Published here for the first time is a crucial document in the history of American radicalism--the "Prison Blossoms," a series of essays, narratives, poems, and fables composed by three activist anarchists imprisoned for the 1892 assault on anti-union steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Editor(s): Brody, Miriam; Buettner, Bonnie. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JPFB; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674050563
ISBN
9780674050563
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.27

Paperback. "Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siecle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed, consumed and disputed in the European metropolis around 1900"-- Num Pages: 406 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 623.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349307210
ISBN
9781349307210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.06

Paperback. "This admirable collection of primary sources is so copious that it will prove instructive to senior professors as well as beginning undergraduates." - Walter Goffart, University of Toronto Editor(s): Murray, Alexander Callander. Series: Readings in Medieval Civilizations & Cultures. Num Pages: 696 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 223 x 35. Weight in Grams: 886.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
679
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442600959
ISBN
9781442600959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.22

Hardback. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
252
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857459589
ISBN
9780857459589
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.65
€ 73.34

Hardcover. Katyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745655765
ISBN
9780745655765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

Hardcover. Num Pages: 340 pages, 649 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 215. Weight in Grams: 1842.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
340
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764349119
ISBN
9780764349119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.35
€ 46.73

Num Pages: 304 pages, 543 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 215. Weight in Grams: 2132.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764349096
ISBN
9780764349096
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.35
€ 50.15

hardcover. Beyond the Nation? outlines how German-Canadians invented ethnicity under Canadian expectations, and provides moving case studies of how notable immigrant groups integrated into Canadian society. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 Figures, 2 Maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442642782
ISBN
9781442642782
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.28

Paperback. Series: Civil War. Num Pages: 244 pages, 100 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJC; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 269 x 11. Weight in Grams: 589.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1959
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Edition
F First Edition Thus, Later Printing
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486227313
ISBN
9780486227313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.35

Paperback. The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1787-8. Written by key players in the American Revolution, they made a case for a new, united nation. They are the most important work of political thought to have come out of America. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages, one map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192805928
ISBN
9780192805928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.36

paperback. .
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486496368
ISBN
9780486496368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.12

paperback. This is a translation of the 1867 work by Alexander Hold, 'Geschichte der Feldzugs in Italien 1866', which describes in detail the campaign of the previous year, fought between the armed forces of the Austrian empire and the kingdom of Italy in the Austrian province of Venetia, the southern Tyrol and on the Adriatic Sea. Translator(s): Sutherland, Stuart. Num Pages: 152 pages, maps, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Helion & Company United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906033620
ISBN
9781906033620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.42

Paperback. Readers of Herodotus' Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents, riddling oracles, and striking dreams. This book represents an examination of signs and their interpreters, as well as the terminology Herodotus uses to describe sign transmission, reception, and decoding. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Number of pages
298
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674055889
ISBN
9780674055889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.57

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