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Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 bw illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474294508
ISBN
9781474294508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.79
€ 137.06

Paperback. In 1936 George Orwell was commissioned to visit areas of mass unemployment in the North of England, this book offers a description of the poverty he witnessed there. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; HBTB; JFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185293
ISBN
9780141185293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. An account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It presents his descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment that are written with honesty, fury and great humanity. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEN; 1DBKEY; HBTB; JFS; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 183 x 14. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141395456
ISBN
9780141395456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. A portrait of high society in the twentieth century, told through the stories of the guests of Maxine Elliott and Prince Aly Khan at the Chateau de l'Horizon in Cannes. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16pp colour photos. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJ; BK; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349139890
ISBN
9780349139890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. The extraordinary lives of two formidable 16th-century queens: Marguerite de Valois and her mother Catherine de' Medici. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; BGR; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780224770
ISBN
9781780224770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
25th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241293645
ISBN
9780241293645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. The story of the Easter Rising from the perspective of those who made it, focusing on the experiences of rank-and-file revolutionaries and exploiting a unique and recently released collection of over 1,700 eye-witness statements. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 black and white plates; 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBTD; HBTV; HBW. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198732358
ISBN
9780198732358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 860 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1226.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
860
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226561417
ISBN
9780226561417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.83

Hardback. Num Pages: 271 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBTB; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231071529
ISBN
9780231071529
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.68
€ 101.83

Paperback. Introduces students to some of the trends and controversies in recent historical scholarship on this topic, and examines the principal developments of party organization, electoral growth and policy-making. Series: Lancaster Pamphlets. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JPFF; JPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415040518
ISBN
9780415040518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.40

Paperback. A provocative history of Israeli society in the 1950s that demonstrates how a voluntarist collectivism gave way to an individualist ethos Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; HBJF1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Brandeis University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611680812
ISBN
9781611680812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multi-faceted conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, showing how race, class, and gender influenced its every aspect. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL4; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361985
ISBN
9780822361985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.94

Paperback. "This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform movement in the eighteenth century. Its fourteen contributions demonstrate the intellectual horizons and international networks of this widespread and influential phenomenon"-- Editor(s): Stapelbroek, Koen; Marjanen, Jani. Num Pages: 398 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBL; HBTB; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 507.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
398
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349346301
ISBN
9781349346301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.40

Paperback. Series: The Wilder House Series in Politics, History & Culture. Num Pages: 344 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; HRC; JPHV; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801483202
ISBN
9780801483202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.26

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843836339
ISBN
9781843836339
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.17

Paperback. Unflinching survey of the state of welfare systems across Europe today, as they struggle in an age of government austerity and neo-liberal reform. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 figures, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HBTB; JKSB; KCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745331393
ISBN
9780745331393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.72

Paperback. This is the definitive account of 10,000 years of North American Indian history. It has been described by American History Illustrated, America's leading popular history magazine, as 'An eloquent and exhaustive chronicle of the history of North America's peoples'. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 10. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752446011
ISBN
9780752446011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.45

paperback. This is the fascinating story of arguably the world's greatest and best known shipbuilding company, from its glory days to its collapse in the late 20th century. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; HBJD1; HBTK; KNGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The History Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780752488615
ISBN
9780752488615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 17.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBTM; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141983820
ISBN
9780141983820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 38 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691125701
ISBN
9780691125701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.52

Hardback. The Right Spouse offers a description and an interpretation of preferential marriages with close kin in South India, as they used to be arranged and experienced in the recent past, one or two generations ago, and as they are increasingly discontinued in the present. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804788069
ISBN
9780804788069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.47

Paperback. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822313175
ISBN
9780822313175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. These essays seek to place the revolutionary events in their wider context: apart from chapters covering the main centres of disturbance there are discussions of the situation and reactions in Britain, the US and Russia, which were affected by the disorders elsewhere. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199249978
ISBN
9780199249978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 95.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBTV; JFSL4; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477310762
ISBN
9781477310762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

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