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Paperback. A sumptuously illustrated history of the Titanic, her sinking and its aftermath. Num Pages: 464 pages, 300. BIC Classification: 3JJC; HBG; HBLW; HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 174 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1172.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445647012
ISBN
9781445647012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.79

paperback. An account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. It traces the Comanches' rise to power, from their prehistoric origins to their domination of the high plains for more than a century until their demise in the face of Anglo-American expansion. Num Pages: 592 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 32. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520559
ISBN
9780099520559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

paperback. The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. This title offers an account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forgotten role in the building of the modern world. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBTQ; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141015644
ISBN
9780141015644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 640 pages, 12 page of photos and 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 232 x 36. Weight in Grams: 826.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780307475947
ISBN
9780307475947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.97

Hardcover. This volume explores how issues of women and gender were addressed in medieval culture from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 15th century. It pays attention to the form in which these questions were addressed (which varies significantly from period to period and from culture to culture). Editor(s): Fenster, Thelma; Lees, Claire. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
292
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312232443
ISBN
9780312232443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.80
€ 56.54

Hardback. This volume brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history. Num Pages: 256 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748635139
ISBN
9780748635139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.41
€ 114.08

Paperback. Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108974
ISBN
9780230108974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 76.96
€ 49.22

Paperback. For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots had any significant involvement in slavery. The volume systematically peels away the mythology and radically revises the traditional picture. Editor(s): Devine, T. M. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 illustrations, 8 tables, 2 line drawings, all in black and white. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474408806
ISBN
9781474408806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.85

Paperback. Ever since the piano was invented, people have longed to own one. In the nineteenth century, an age without recorded music or television, this craze reached its apex. When Thad Carhart discovered Luc and his hidden cache of pianos in the dusty repair shop on his street in Paris, his life changed. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AVRG; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099288237
ISBN
9780099288237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. This is a history of the trees, woodlands and forests of Scotland and of the people who used them. Editor(s): Smout, T. C. Num Pages: 288 pages, 89 black & white illustrations, 89 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBT; HDD; PST; RGBL; RGC; WNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 212 x 14. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748617012
ISBN
9780748617012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 40.85

Paperback. Provides informative biography of each of the currencies. This book reveals where and how each originated, the various roles they performed, and how they spread, survived and changed over the years. It features facts and interesting stories, and thoughtfully illustrated with images. Editor(s): Hockenhull, Thomas. Num Pages: 160 pages, 70 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; KCBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
British Museum Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714118086
ISBN
9780714118086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.41

hardcover. "Originally published in French in 2000 under the title La Clepsydre: Essai sur la pluralitae des temps dans le judaeisme." Translator(s): Ivry, Benjamin. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 28. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804789059
ISBN
9780804789059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.69

Hardback. Translator(s): Mes, Tom. Series: Visible Evidence. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AFKV; APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816679911
ISBN
9780816679911
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.23

Paperback. Translator(s): Mes, Tom. Series: Visible Evidence. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; AFKV; APFA; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816679928
ISBN
9780816679928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 403 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 654.
Publisher
New York University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814760284
ISBN
9780814760284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.71

Hardback. Focusing on the period from 1913 to 1995, this book offers a social and institutional account of the evolution of demography in Canada. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774808187
ISBN
9780774808187
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.28

Paperback. The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the dislocations of the period were most severely felt in the South. This title contends that the military struggle there involved a triangle - two sets of white belligerents and approximately 400,000 slaves. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; JFSL3; JPWL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691006260
ISBN
9780691006260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 42.31

Paperback. The nineteenth century, a time of cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women. Women achieved this by fighting for their rights in the legal, economic, and political spheres. This volume provides a context to the movement by including countries from all regions of Europe. Editor(s): Paletschek, Sylvia; Pietrow-Ennker, Bianka. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBTB; JFFK; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754941
ISBN
9780804754941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Paperback. Since its creation in 1894 by Joseph Snell Wood, the Society of Women Writers & Journalists has attracted the company of many famous women writers, journalists, poets and playwrights. This title reveals the long and fascinating history of the Society. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 235 x 9. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752451596
ISBN
9780752451596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.60

Paperback. After successfully developing a series of funfairs, Billy Butlin progressed to opening holiday centres and hotels across the UK. From Redcoats to water worlds, and from the Glamorous Grandmothers competitions to National Talent contests, this book provides a nostalgic trip down memory lane for the ones who know and love Butlin's. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTB; WQN; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 9. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752458632
ISBN
9780752458632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.72

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