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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. There are few more compelling and more tragic issues in the world, than the bitter struggle between Palestinians and Israelis. This guide disentangles myths and realities and gives a thoughtful picture of an unhappy place. Num Pages: 608 pages, 16 BW inset. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141028019
ISBN
9780141028019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.24

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 9 black & white halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801453687
ISBN
9780801453687
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 16, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801452536
ISBN
9780801452536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.83

Hardback. Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. Holy Men of Mount Athos presents the lives of five holy men who lived there at different times, from the ninth century to the last decades of the Byzantine period in the early fifteenth century. Editor(s): Greenfield, Richard P.H.; Talbot, Alice-Mary; Alexakis, Alexander. Translator(s): Greenfield, Richard P.H.; Talbot, Alice-Mary; McGrath, Stamtina. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 740 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HRC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 133. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088764
ISBN
9780674088764
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.12

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

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

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

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

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

€ 42.99
€ 32.76

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

€ 43.00
€ 34.76

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

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

€ 95.56
€ 79.56

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

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

Paperback. The 'honorable men' who ruled the Old South had a language that comprised apparently outlandish features, yet revealed much about the lives of masters and the nature of slavery. This book demonstrates the language of honor that embraced a system of phrases, gestures, and behaviors centered on values, asserting authority and maintaining respect. Num Pages: 192 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBTS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 28.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691017198
ISBN
9780691017198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.75
€ 42.46

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