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History: earliest times to present day
hardcover. Illustrated with vivid portraits of friends, family, colleagues and enemies, this book provides an account of the passage from a life of sensuality and superstition to a genuine spiritual awakening. It is narrative of one man's religious journey which continues to shape the way we write and behave today. Translator(s): Burton, Philip. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; BGXA; HBLA; HRAX; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 207 x 31. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151282
- ISBN
- 9781857151282
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.03
€ 19.99
€ 15.03
Paperback. First published in 1968, this remains a thought-provoking survey of the history of Ireland from the Act of Union of 1800 until modern times. The second edition, published in 1977, which is reprinted here, includes a chapter on the period 1968-73, taking in the early years of the troubles. Series: Classics of Irish History S. Num Pages: 224 pages, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 188 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- University College Dublin Press Dublin
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900621816
- ISBN
- 9781900621816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.32
€ 23.99
€ 20.32
Hardcover. America's rise from revolutionary colonies to a world power is often treated as inevitable. But Charles N. Edel's provocative biography of John Q. Adams argues that he served as the central architect of a grand strategy whose ideas and policies made him a critical link between the founding generation and the Civil War-era nation of Lincoln. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHC; JPHL; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674368088
- ISBN
- 9780674368088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.96
€ 47.99
€ 39.96
Paperback. Presents the story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. This book tells two stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire tried to stop them. It features a cast of amazing characters from George III to George Washington, to soldiers and their families. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141021713
- ISBN
- 9780141021713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.59
€ 23.99
€ 16.59
Hardback. Editor(s): Budin, Stephanie Lynn; Turfa, Jean MacIntosh. Series: Rewriting Antiquity. Num Pages: 1110 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HBW; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 174. Weight in Grams: 2676.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138808362
- ISBN
- 9781138808362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 370.65
€ 370.65
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 273 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226364162
- ISBN
- 9780226364162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.58
€ 41.99
€ 32.58
Hardback. In this second volume of his authoritative history of the region, Christoph Baumer explores the unique flow of goods, peoples and ideas along the dusty tracks and wandering caravan routes that brought European and Mediterranean orbits into contact with Asia. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1FC; 1FP; 3D; 3F; HBJF; HBLA; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 298 x 241 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2456.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780768328
- ISBN
- 9781780768328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 57.06
€ 59.15
€ 57.06
Paperback. Tracing the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, this book explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inauguration. It challenges dominant view that the Scots were 'bought and sold for English gold'. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 764.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748680276
- ISBN
- 9780748680276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.20
€ 37.99
€ 34.20
paperback. Patrick Pearse founded an Irish language school for boys in 1908, to create Irish male citizens from the ancient models of masculinity. This book explores how the idea of a modern Irish boyhood was created through Christian iconography and mythology as well as a preoccupation with patriotism, Gaelic games, theatre and juvenile literature Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFC; JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- CORK UNIV PR
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859183953
- ISBN
- 9781859183953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.00€ 21.31
€ 25.00
€ 21.31
Paperback. Third edition of Charles Tripp's authoritative history of Iraq. Num Pages: 386 pages, 26 b/w illus. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF1; HBLW; JPH; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 624. 386 pages, 26 b/w illus. 4 maps. Third edition of Charles Tripp's authoritative history of Iraq. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBJF1; HBLW; JPH; JPS. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 20. Weight: 624.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 386
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521702478
- ISBN
- 9780521702478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.26
€ 35.26
Paperback. Studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage. Num Pages: 464 pages, facsimiles, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Penguin England
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140137217
- ISBN
- 9780140137217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.94
€ 19.99
€ 15.94
Paperback. An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408886366
- ISBN
- 9781408886366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.31
€ 23.99
€ 16.31
Paperback. 'The White Cities collects fifteen years of incomparable reportage.. What Roth sees is always arresting, often atrocious, usually absurd.. A "journalism" which is equal parts Baudelaire, Dickens and Kafka' Scotland on Sunday Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Num Pages: 304 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJG; DNJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847086204
- ISBN
- 9781847086204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.52
€ 13.00
€ 11.52
Hardback. This is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating African American woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Actress, dancer, model, literary critic, psychologist, and free-spirited provocateur, Anita Reynolds was, as her Parisian friends nicknamed her, an American Cocktail. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BM; HBLW; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073050
- ISBN
- 9780674073050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.13
€ 47.99
€ 40.13
Hardback. An examination into two of the most important activities undertaken by the Normans. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783270255
- ISBN
- 9781783270255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.09
€ 98.09
Hardcover. Presents the life of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), from his early years during the American Civil War, through his academic and political career and US' involvement in the First World War, to Wilson's role at Versailles, including the construction of his 14 Points, his principles for the reformation of Europe, and the consequences of Versailles. Series Editor(s): Sharp, Alan. Series: Makers of the Modern World. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 tables, 3 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905791620
- ISBN
- 9781905791620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.44
€ 17.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. This title offers a narrative based on the first-hand accounts of those who witnessed these traumatic events. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBWE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718192013
- ISBN
- 9780718192013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
Hardcover. Spanning four continents, this lucid introduction assesses this fascinating figure and his legacy amidst the political intrigue, colonial discovery, and military conquest that dominated the age. Series: Makers of the Muslim World. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBM; 3JB; HBJH; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851686100
- ISBN
- 9781851686100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.86
€ 34.86
Hardback. Editor(s): Carandini, Andrea. Num Pages: 1280 pages, 452 color illus. 67 halftones. 13 line illus. 9 tables. 97 color maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; GBG; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 293 x 238 x 101. Weight in Grams: 4294.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Two-volume slipcased set
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691163475
- ISBN
- 9780691163475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 247.81€ 243.05
€ 247.81
€ 243.05
Paperback. The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society at large. Series: Blackwell History of the World. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; HBG; HBLW; HBLX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 170. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405187169
- ISBN
- 9781405187169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 37.23
€ 37.99
€ 37.23
Paperback. Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 171 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280. Women and Local Resistance in the Zimbabwean Liberation War. Series: African Issues. 210 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW; HBTR; JFSJ1. Dimension: 216 x 171 x 13. Weight: 304.
- Publisher
- James Currey
- Number of pages
- 210
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010407
- ISBN
- 9781847010407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.83
€ 26.99
€ 26.83
Hardback. The true story of Napoleon Bonaparte's friendship with Betsy Balcombe and her family, the only English people he ever lived with, during his exile on St Helena. Num Pages: 464 pages, 8pp b+w photos and 8pp colour photos. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 242 x 43. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781760113452
- ISBN
- 9781760113452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 8.34
€ 29.99
€ 8.34
Paperback. Lives of the Caesars is a collection of biographical essays about Rome's most fascinating and influential emperors, from Augustus to Justinian. Written by authoritative experts in an accessible and lively style, this book examines 12 individuals who each placed their own distinctive stamp on one of the most significant periods in European history. Editor(s): Barrett, Anthony A. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405127554
- ISBN
- 9781405127554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.13
€ 46.13
Paperback. Tells the dramatic stories of the laborers, merchants, smugglers, and activists who crossed these borders into the twentieth century, and the American and British empire-builders who countered them by hardening racial and national lines. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396. The Making of the US-Canadian Borderlands. Series: American Crossroads. 264 pages, illustrations. In the late nineteenth century the borderlands between the United States, the British Empire in Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Rim emerged as a crossroads of the Pacific world. This book reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight: 396.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520271692
- ISBN
- 9780520271692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27