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Paperback. A new edition of a classic history of the Bolsheviks which destroys the platitudes of mainstream histories, reclaiming the revolution on its centenary Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150. .
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745399980
- ISBN
- 9780745399980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.95
€ 30.99
€ 20.95
Hardback. This book is a rare and important gift. One of the few memoirs of combat in World War II by a distinguished African-American flier, it is also perhaps the only account of the African-American experience in a German prison camp. Series: World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 192 pages, 80 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBW; JFSL4; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 5817. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823274383
- ISBN
- 9780823274383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.66
€ 34.99
€ 29.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBTB; JP. Dimension: 173 x 250 x 24. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783838207209
- ISBN
- 9783838207209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 34.80
€ 48.99
€ 34.80
Hardcover. In 1934 a Swedish museum director and his assistant researched the maritime and material culture of the Outer Hebrides. Their work is presented here along with 80 sepia photographs and 35 line drawings, all previously unpublished. Editor(s): Fenton, Alexander. Num Pages: 128 pages, 60 sepia photographs + 43 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHL; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 195 x 14. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- NMSE - Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905267651
- ISBN
- 9781905267651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.62
€ 33.99
€ 28.62
Hardcover. Katyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745655765
- ISBN
- 9780745655765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.57
€ 65.57
Paperback. This book gives a radically new reading of Russia s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745651309
- ISBN
- 9780745651309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.21
€ 27.21
Hardback. Offers historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship. This book shows how this martial art evolved through a recurring process of "inventing tradition," which served the changing ideologies and needs of Japanese warriors and governments over the course of history. Num Pages: 328 pages, 19 b/w, 6 line drawings, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; WSTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284371
- ISBN
- 9780520284371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.70
€ 40.99
€ 28.70
Hardback. Published here for the first time is a crucial document in the history of American radicalism--the "Prison Blossoms," a series of essays, narratives, poems, and fables composed by three activist anarchists imprisoned for the 1892 assault on anti-union steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Editor(s): Brody, Miriam; Buettner, Bonnie. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JPFB; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674050563
- ISBN
- 9780674050563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.30
€ 47.99
€ 39.30
Paperback. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 32 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700613922
- ISBN
- 9780700613922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.91
€ 42.91
Paperback. Specters of Revolution examines the development of two guerrilla insurgencies led by schoolteachers in Mexico during the 1960s. Relying upon recently declassified documents and oral histories, it chronicles a history of nonviolent peasant political action, underscored by long-held rural utopian ideals, radicalized by persistent state terror. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 hts. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199936595
- ISBN
- 9780199936595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Paperback. Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and sexuality. The results can be sexy or serious, satirical or tender, discreetly coded or defiantly outspoken. Num Pages: 160 pages, 75 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Tate Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849765039
- ISBN
- 9781849765039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.84
€ 19.99
€ 15.84
Paperback. There are a couple of hundred songs that are sung by millions across the world each day, that school children know by heart and sports fans belt out perfectly even after eight beers. And they aren't pop songs - they are national anthems. In this book, the author brings the incredible stories of the world's national anthems to life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099592235
- ISBN
- 9780099592235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 10.51
€ 19.99
€ 10.51
Paperback. Callinicosa s new book is a frontal assault on the widely accepted idea that the East European revolutions of 1989 mark the death of socialism. In an attempt to vindicate the classical Marxist tradition, Callinicos argues that socialism in this tradition can only come from below, through the self--activity of the working class. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBTV; JPFC; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Lrg
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745608488
- ISBN
- 9780745608488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.44
€ 28.44
Paperback. Follows the interweaving lives of several key anarchists, and of the secret police who tracked them. Framed by the Paris Commune of 1871 and the 1905 revolution in St Petersburg, and spread across five continents, theirs is the story of a generation that saw the dream of Utopia crumble, to be replaced by a dangerous desperation. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBLL; HBTB; JPFB; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 36. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Digital
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099551928
- ISBN
- 9780099551928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.28
€ 19.99
€ 14.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; HBJK; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801474828
- ISBN
- 9780801474828
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99
€ 37.99
Paperback / so. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Sports Publishing LLC United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613212370
- ISBN
- 9781613212370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.99
€ 15.99
€ 14.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDT; HBJF1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 879.
- Publisher
- Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Edition
- Anniversary
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780789212061
- ISBN
- 9780789212061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.48
€ 29.99
€ 25.48
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611470208
- ISBN
- 9781611470208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.12€ 15.03
€ 89.12
€ 15.03
Hardcover. Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. She describes ingenious oral networks, and she uncovers important lessons about the nexus of information and power. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674660182
- ISBN
- 9780674660182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.47
€ 49.99
€ 41.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages, over 160 color and b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764311093
- ISBN
- 9780764311093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.90
€ 25.99
€ 17.90