History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
hardcover. Series: Then and Now. Num Pages: 144 pages, 140 colour and b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; AJ; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 286 x 18. Weight in Grams: 958.
- Publisher
- Pavilion Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910904084
- ISBN
- 9781910904084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.32
€ 26.99
€ 18.32
Paperback. Sze-yuen Chung was closely and actively involved in the entire process of transferring Hong Kong's sovereignty back to China. These memoirs record his personal experiences in Hong Kong's political scene in the two decades between 1979 and 1999. Editor(s): Chung, Sze-Yuen. Num Pages: 388 pages, col. Illustrations, col. maps, col. ports. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJF; HBLW3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The Chinese University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789629960209
- ISBN
- 9789629960209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.67
€ 20.67
Hardcover. In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city's status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. This book presents a tour of Hong Kong city's post colonial urban landscape. Num Pages: 320 pages, 101 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPCH; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLX; HBTR; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226448565
- ISBN
- 9780226448565
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.48€ 79.56
€ 95.48
€ 79.56
Paperback. Bray explores how men who engaged in sodomy reconciled this behavior with their society's violent loathing for the sodomite, and shows how a social more that had remained stable for centuries changed dramatically toward the end of the seventeenth century. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 165 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 203 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 165
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102896
- ISBN
- 9780231102896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.36
€ 40.99
€ 35.36
Paperback. Collects the primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome that are translated into modern English. Covering a period - from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century bce to Greco-Roman texts of the third and fourth centuries ce - this title includes well-known writings by Plato, Sappho, Aeschines, Catullus, and Juvenal. Editor(s): Hubbard, Thomas K. Num Pages: 575 pages, 35 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 922. A Sourcebook of Basic Documents. 558 pages, b/w illus. Editor(s): Hubbard, Thomas K. Collects the primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome that are translated into modern English. Covering a period - from the earliest Greek texts in the late seventh century bce to Greco-Roman texts of the third and fourth centuries ce - this title includes well-known writings by Plato, Sappho, Aeschines, Catullus, and Juvenal. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; JFSK2. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 36. Weight: 832.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 558
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First Printing Writing In Book
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234307
- ISBN
- 9780520234307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.76
€ 47.99
€ 34.76
In the latter field, it challenges the traditional account of the development of rhetoric, probing the boundaries that currently demarcate its origins, history, and relationship to poetry. Num Pages: 248 pages, 3, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412269
- ISBN
- 9781421412269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.56
€ 65.56
Paperback. An invitation to discover the two most enduring and exciting stories ever to have been told Series: Beginner's Guides. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780742298
- ISBN
- 9781780742298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.42
€ 13.99
€ 11.42
Hardcover. Despite the massive influx of Hollywood movies and films from other European countries after World War II, Austrian film continued to be hugely popular with Austrian and German audiences. By examining the decisive role that popular cinema played in the turbulent post-war era, this book provides unique insights into the reconstruction of a society. Series: Film Europa. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 ills. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JJPG; APFA; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459459
- ISBN
- 9780857459459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.93
€ 161.93
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVW; HBJD; HBLW3; HBW; JFFN; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801441585
- ISBN
- 9780801441585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.63
€ 47.63
Paperback. Explores the first nine thousand years of life in Britain, from the retreat of the glaciers to the Romans departure. This book traces the settlement of domestic communities, and shows how archaeology enables us to reconstruct the evolution of habits, traditions and customs. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3B; HBJD1; HBLA; HDDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classic
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241955888
- ISBN
- 9780241955888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Hardback. Offers an exploration of the oral histories of three generations of refugees from India's Partition. This book focuses on the emergent conceptual nexus of home, travel, and identity in the stories of participants from ten Hindu and Sikh families in Delhi. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW3; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256433
- ISBN
- 9780823256433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.78
€ 118.78
Hardcover. Series: The Lamar Series in Western History. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 243 x 24. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300154139
- ISBN
- 9780300154139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.56
€ 99.56
Hardback. Series: War and Society in North America. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821422557
- ISBN
- 9780821422557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.57
€ 43.99
€ 43.57
Hardcover. Rarely seen photographs from the Baltimore Sun, the News-American, and the Afro-American bring to life the rich, personal anecdotes of wartime Baltimoreans and transport readers back to an indelible era of Baltimore history. Num Pages: 176 pages, 129, 129 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801899836
- ISBN
- 9780801899836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.09
€ 38.99
€ 33.09
Hardcover. The Civil War still occupies a prominent place in the national collective memory. Yet battlefields were not the only landscapes altered by the war. Countless individuals saw their daily lives upended while the entire nation suffered. This book reveals this side of the war as it happened, examining the visual culture of the Northern home front. Num Pages: 192 pages, 90 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1002.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226061856
- ISBN
- 9780226061856
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.00€ 32.76
€ 37.00
€ 32.76
Hardback. China's sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production of woodblock-printed books. This volume considers what a wide range of late Ming books reveal about their readers' ideas of a pleasurable private life, as well as their orientations toward early modernity and toward traditional Chinese sources of authority. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 275 pages, 5 halftones, 64 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JB; 3JD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 275
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066809
- ISBN
- 9780674066809
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.21
€ 45.99
€ 38.21
Paperback. Following authors experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia, in this book he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; BGHA; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183053
- ISBN
- 9780141183053
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. Kaeuper argues that chivalric ideology of the high and later Middle Ages selectively appropriated religious ideas to valorize the institution of knighthood. He describes how both elite warriors and clerics contributed to a Christian theology that validated the knights' bloody profession. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222975
- ISBN
- 9780812222975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.33
€ 37.99
€ 34.33
Paperback. Explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. This book draws on contemporary writings - on chronicles, songs, sermons, travel diaries and peace treaties - to focus on people and events we thought we knew well. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3H; HBLC1; HBWC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845950781
- ISBN
- 9781845950781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.80
€ 23.99
€ 17.80
hardcover. The first comprehensive history of a major Muslim rebellion and the rise and fall of an independent Islamic state within China during the second half of the nineteenth century-in Xinjiang, where potentially separatist Islamic movements still worry the Chinese state. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748841
- ISBN
- 9780804748841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.04
€ 134.04