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Paperback. Michael Meighan takes us on a journey into a time when Scotland, despite its small size, produced the best of everything, from stone to steel and rubber tyres to motor cars Num Pages: 224 pages, 171 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBTB; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 14. Weight in Grams: 688. 224 pages, 171 Illustrations. Michael Meighan takes us on a journey into a time when Scotland, despite its small size, produced the best of everything, from stone to steel and rubber tyres to motor cars. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBTB; HBTK. Dimension: 168 x 243 x 14. Weight: 570.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445609171
ISBN
9781445609171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.80

Num Pages: 303 pages, 796 bw/color images. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBTD; WGCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 305 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2066.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764339615
ISBN
9780764339615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.41
€ 42.96

Hardcover. By the author of the bestselling Moneyball: in football, as in life, the value we place on people changes with the rules of the games they play. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; WSJA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393061239
ISBN
9780393061239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. Tells the epic thousand-year story of Britain's Jewish community, the country's oldest minority group, replete with the dark episodes of persecution and expulsion, but also with positive periods of acceptance and toleration. This book offers an introduction and fitting tribute. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 7. Weight in Grams: 148. New.
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9780747812302
ISBN
9780747812302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.89

Hardcover. As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. In this highly illustrated book Michael Leapman tells the Library's story, highlighting the most significant and beautiful items in its care, as well as some of the lesser known. Num Pages: 256 pages, Over 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; GL; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1344. 256 pages, Over 150 colour illustrations. As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. In this highly illustrated book Michael Leapman tells the Library's story, highlighting the most significant and beautiful items in its care, as well as some of the lesser known. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; GL; HBJD1; HBTB. Dimension: 257 x 224 x 26. Weight: 1338.
Publisher
British Library
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712358378
ISBN
9780712358378
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.97

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Middleton Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906008802
ISBN
9781906008802
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.11

Hardback. A new multi-volume series covering United States Naval patches from World War II to the present each volume contains over 1000 patches in full color. Num Pages: 160 pages, over 1,000 patches. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTM; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1004.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887407536
ISBN
9780887407536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.12

Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages, 17, 14 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440. Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus. 224 pages, Illustrations, maps. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTQ. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 19. Weight: 440.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801449727
ISBN
9780801449727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.45

Hardback. Explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. This title weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 color illus. 16 halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFC; JFSL; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691140315
ISBN
9780691140315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 51.06

Paperback. Reveals a gruesome stories of exhumation and reburial throughout American history. Taking us to the contested grave sites, this title explores how complicated interactions of regional pride, shifting reputations, and evolving burial practices led to public and often emotional battles over the final resting places of famous figures. Num Pages: 272 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226423302
ISBN
9780226423302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.20

Paperback. Britons may very well never be slaves, but British rule certainly meant slavery for others. This book explores the personalities and the issues behind the movement to abolish first the slave trade and later the condition of slavery. It reveals the passionate arguments on both sides of the abolition debate. Num Pages: 252 pages, 12 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750934916
ISBN
9780750934916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.91

Hardback. The Great Abolition Sham Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 500. The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade. 256 pages. The Great Abolition Sham. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; HBTS. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 25. Weight: 490.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750934909
ISBN
9780750934909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.75

Explaining the bias of union members - most of whom were classical or jazz music performers - against rock music and musicians, this book addresses issues of race and class; questions of what qualified someone as a "skilled" or professional musician. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVG; HBTB; JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354635
ISBN
9780822354635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.55

Paperback. Only one tribe of American Indians is known ever to have successfully revolted against the empire of Spain and to have thwarted all subsequent attempts by the Spaniards to reconquer them: the Jivaro (hee'-va-ro), the untsuri suarii of eastern Ecuador. This book is about their culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 24ill. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 49.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520050655
ISBN
9780520050655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.93

Hardback. An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation, and the languages of politics. Editor(s): Braddick, Michael J.; Withington, Phil. Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3J; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 752.
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Publication date
2017
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781783271719
ISBN
9781783271719
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.88

hardcover. A Byzantine Government in Exile Government and Society under the Laskarids of Nicaea (1204-1261) Series: Oxford Historical Monographs. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3H; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198218548
ISBN
9780198218548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 281.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 564 pages, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
564
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138193888
ISBN
9781138193888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.84

Paperback. An updated new edition of Michael Howard's classic history of war in European history, from medieval times to the 21st century, showing how the changing face of war has shaped the wider course of the continent's history over the last millennium. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Updated Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199546190
ISBN
9780199546190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.11

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843837121
ISBN
9781843837121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Hardback. Focuses on Rome's historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economic, political, and social change. This book tells the story of the gentrification of Monti - once the architectural home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, and corrupt officials. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226329116
ISBN
9780226329116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.64
€ 78.75

Paperback. Focuses on Rome's historic Monti district and the wrenching dislocation caused by rapid economic, political, and social change. This book tells the story of the gentrification of Monti - once the architectural home of a community of artisans and shopkeepers now displaced by an invasion of rapacious real estate speculators, and corrupt officials. Num Pages: 368 pages, 6 halftones, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226329123
ISBN
9780226329123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Num Pages: 256 pages, 750+ color photos. BIC Classification: HBT; WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 288 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1602.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764325748
ISBN
9780764325748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.70
€ 53.37

Hardback. This 1993 annual volume represents the continuation of the "Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History". The contents include London corantos and letters to the editor in the 17th/18th centuries, sporting journalism and celebrity in the 19th/20th centuries, and material on book reviews. Series: Newspaper and Periodical History. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; DSB; GBCY; HBTB; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780313290503
ISBN
9780313290503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.88
€ 62.96

Paperback. This text identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation and people - and links this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674006713
ISBN
9780674006713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.84

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