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Paperback. The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem. This title recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to explore what befell abandoned children in this period in vivid detail. Num Pages: 456 pages, 64 halftones, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226102054
ISBN
9780226102054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.71

Paperback. Follows the thread of the potato's story through the tapestry of human history, from its origins and evolution to its mysterious arrival in Europe, where it became a crucial part of gastronomic and social fabric. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16. BIC Classification: HBTB; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 48. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099474791
ISBN
9780099474791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Hardback. Offers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. This book traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 13 b/w illus., 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition, 1 ed.
SKU
V9780520277564
ISBN
9780520277564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.43
€ 46.46

Paperback. A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen Offers an account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan. It traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to international icon of Japanese culture. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282353
ISBN
9780520282353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Hardback. An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees. Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Num Pages: 206 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2007th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600676
ISBN
9780230600676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white halftones, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; WBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 180 x 16. Weight in Grams: 624.
Publisher
Smart Pop
Number of pages
260
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936661411
ISBN
9781936661411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.70

Paperback. Series: Culture and Society After Socialism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBTB; JHMC; KCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801487736
ISBN
9780801487736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.92

Paperback. Powerful testimonies by Holocaust survivors Editor(s): Rubenstein, Joshua; Rubenstein, Joshua. Num Pages: 496 pages, 20 b&w illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DVUA; GTB; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222671
ISBN
9780253222671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardcover. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; HBTB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 130. . Good copy in dustwrapper. DW with some nicks and tears.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1953
SKU
KTG0001600
ISBN
9780708300824
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Thanks to extensive archival research and a thorough examination of the published works of the university's professors, Grendler's history tells a new story. Num Pages: 312 pages, 19, 13 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JNMN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801891717
ISBN
9780801891717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.97
€ 60.29

Paperback. This is a history of the University of Hertfordshire, relating the challenges and achievements of sixty years in further and higher education. At the same time, through its focus on a single institution, the book illustrates the importance of the post-1992 higher education sector in advancing the knowledge economy and cultural life of the country. Editor(s): Davies, Owen. Num Pages: 224 pages, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEST; HBJD1; HBTB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 184 x 13. Weight in Grams: 608.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Hertfordshire Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907396830
ISBN
9781907396830
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. From a small city college in the sixteenth century the University of Edinburgh grew to be one of the world's greatest centres of scholarship, research and learning. Its history is told here by three of its leading historians with wit, verve and style. Num Pages: 216 pages, 275. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3J; HBTB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 173 x 16. Weight in Grams: 604.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748616466
ISBN
9780748616466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.54

Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; KNDF; WBXD2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 646.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
William Morrow
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062389756
ISBN
9780062389756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; KNDF; WBXD2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062389770
ISBN
9780062389770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.51

Hardcover. This work offers a history of the Pacific as a "frontier" of the United States using economics, politics, and culture as its central areas of consideration. While many studies have analyzed specific regions within the Pacific, this work considers the whole of this vast ocean. Translator(s): Wilson, W.D. Num Pages: 504 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1M; 1QSP; GTB; HBG; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 40. Weight in Grams: 966.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268043087
ISBN
9780268043087
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 51.85

Paperback. Series: Perspectives on the Holocaust. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTZ1; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
HPOD
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472567185
ISBN
9781472567185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.74

Paperback. * Provides survey of the ways in which the United States acquired, administered, and abandoned its various imperial possessions. * Offers a new interpretation of how and why America became an imperialist power. * Incorporates notions of imperialism, anti-imperialism, and geopolitics into American foreign policy decision making. Series: Problems in American History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781577180562
ISBN
9781577180562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.60

Paperback. Rev. ed. of: United Nations since 1945: peacekeeping and the Cold War. London: Longman, 1999. Series: Seminar Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBTW; JPSN1; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 171 x 12. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408237663
ISBN
9781408237663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 50.85

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Spokesman Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851247076
ISBN
9780851247076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.42

Hardback. EPUB Editor(s): Mayersen, Deborah. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; HBTZ; JPSN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137484482
ISBN
9781137484482
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.84

Paperback. Today, many believe the Civil War was fought over slavery. This view satisfies our contemporary sense of justice, but as Gallagher's searing revisionist history shows, it is an anachronistic judgment. Northern citizen-soldiers fought the war to preserve the Union. Emancipation was secondary to the war's primary goal of safeguarding the republic. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBWJ; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066083
ISBN
9780674066083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.66

Paperback. In the summer of 1940, the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks all that changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled their homes. This book describes the consequences of that defeat. Num Pages: 496 pages, Yes. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140296846
ISBN
9780140296846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.66

Hardcover. In Georgia during the Great Depression, jobless workers united with the urban poor, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. In a collective effort that cut across race and class boundaries, they confronted an unresponsive political and social system and helped shape government policies. This book lets us understand the movement. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JJG; HBTB; JPWF; KCFM; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820330457
ISBN
9780820330457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.93

paperback. Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies - especially the rural economy of Tuscany. This title shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets. Series: Politics, History, & Social Change. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 tables, 1 map, 3 line art. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781592136193
ISBN
9781592136193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.17

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