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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. Outlines both Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's major philosophical insights and the limitations of his thought. This very short introduction looks at Gandhi's cosmocentric anthropology, his spiritual view of politics, his unique form of liberal communitarianism, and his theories of oppression, non-violent action, and active citizenship. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 113 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192854575
ISBN
9780192854575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Hardback. Provides an original account of Gandhi's beliefs, their origins, and their expression in his political views and personal behaviour. This work examines Gandhi's ideas about the relationship between sexual temptation and spiritual power, and the bizarre and scandalous behaviour that resulted. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 248 x 36. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845111663
ISBN
9781845111663
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.49
€ 49.51

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857381613
ISBN
9780857381613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. 8vo.Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KEX0291267
ISBN
9780195156348
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi's Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072794
ISBN
9780674072794
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 39.84

Paperback. Dealing with the civil war, this title takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers. It also examines the impact on major campaigns - Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta - of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, and overcrowded hospitals. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 534. Weight in Grams: 760.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780252070105
ISBN
9780252070105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. Num Pages: 448 pages, 2 x 8pp b&w. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444760620
ISBN
9781444760620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success. Num Pages: 496 pages, 33 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 42. Weight in Grams: 758.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300144239
ISBN
9780300144239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.40

Hardback. Series: Orbis Biblicus Et Orientalis. Num Pages: 750 pages. BIC Classification: HBLA; HD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 4259.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
Number of pages
750
Condition
New
SKU
V9783525543863
ISBN
9783525543863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 255.54
€ 196.66

Paperback. Paints a picture of two Roman auxilary regiments, the 9th Cohort of Batavians and the 1st Cohort of Tungrians. Covering officers and familes, friends and colleagues, this book brings to life the ordinary soldiers and their names and duties; military routine, duty-reports, leave and deserters; the supply of food, drink and goods; and, more. Num Pages: 176 pages, colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYN; 1QDAR; HBJD1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 171 x 13. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752419503
ISBN
9780752419503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.33

Paperback. A century of change in an American industrial utopia Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBND; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222886
ISBN
9780253222886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.84

Paperback. This title reveals the true extent of how chemistry rather than military strategy determined the shape, duration and outcome of the First World War. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750953757
ISBN
9780750953757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DNF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781681371184
ISBN
9781681371184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.62

Paperback. A study that illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, it explores Egyptian historical thought and examines the careers of numerous critical historians. Num Pages: 406 pages, 4 b/w photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520257337
ISBN
9780520257337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.88

Paperback. Widely admired as the definitive cultural history of the 1960s, this groundbreaking workfinallyreappears in a new edition." Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Liveright
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871404329
ISBN
9780871404329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.69

Hardcover. The story of how three remarkable New Yorkers helped over 3000 African American slaves escape to a life of liberty in Canada, in the decades before the American Civil War Num Pages: 320 pages, 35 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 668.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198737902
ISBN
9780198737902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.28

Hardcover. The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 31. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393244076
ISBN
9780393244076
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 28 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 28.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781493010660
ISBN
9781493010660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.65

Paperback. Published by Monthly Review Press, 122 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853458616
ISBN
9780853458616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban revolution. The text maps out the way in which varying attitudes toward power and nationalism struggle for a stance on homosexual issues. Num Pages: 272 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KJC; HBJK; HBLW; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 181 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226041742
ISBN
9780226041742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. An eyewitness account of events in Gaza that brings home the horror of life in a war-zone, based on the author's candid and dramatic blog. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; JPWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745330242
ISBN
9780745330242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.85

Paperback. Had the pacifist International Solidarity Movement not been in Gaza at the time, the world would have been deprived of a detailed account from the inside, having instead to rely on the generalised accounts of news agencies reporting from outside the Strip. This volume contains a direct eye-witness account of Gaza's last bloodbath. Translator(s): Filippin, Daniela. Num Pages: 178 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JMC; BJ; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172. Stay Human. 178 pages, Illustrations. Had the pacifist International Solidarity Movement not been in Gaza at the time, the world would have been deprived of a detailed account from the inside, having instead to rely on the generalised accounts of news agencies reporting from outside the Strip. This volume contains a direct eye-witness account of Gaza's last bloodbath. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JMC; BJ; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight: 170. Translator(s): Filippin, Daniela.
Publisher
Kube Publishing Ltd
Number of pages
178
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847740199
ISBN
9781847740199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.47

hardcover. In 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in twentieth-century Japan-the murder and emasculation of her lover. This detailed account of Sada's personal history, the events leading up to the crime, and its aftermath steps beyond the simplistic view of Abe Sada as a sexual deviate or hysterical woman to reveal a survivor. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; JFSJ1; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231130523
ISBN
9780231130523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.67

Paperback / so. Series: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Fur Forschung Des Landes Nordrhein-Westf. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: HBLA; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 7. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1963
Publisher
VS Verlag f?r Sozialwissenschaften United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9783663005667
ISBN
9783663005667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.12

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