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Paperback. From the dawn of time, power has been an aphrodisiac. The royal mistress, having conquered a king, often ran his kingdom, wielding her sexuality as a sceptre. This book explores the position of royal mistress at European Courts, and the fascinating women who filled it. Series: P.S. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060585440
ISBN
9780060585440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBTS; JFFE2; KCL; LNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
With a new preface by the author
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231180337
ISBN
9780231180337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.63

Paperback. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the public had had enough of sex and death. This title offers a new way to understand sensationalism in both newspapers and reform movements. Num Pages: 232 pages, 5 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBTB; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226021539
ISBN
9780226021539
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.92

Hardcover. Offers a way to understand sensationalism in newspapers and reform movements. This title explains how the social and political realities of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century society changed, slowly marginalizing this kind of journalism in favor of a ethical style that demonstrated the significance of race, and gender, to its readers. Num Pages: 232 pages, 5 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBTB; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226021362
ISBN
9780226021362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 78.49

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFFE2; JFMX; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172622
ISBN
9780231172622
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.84
€ 90.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTS; JFFE2; JFMX; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 267 x 16. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172639
ISBN
9780231172639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. Offers insights into the potential for sex education to address adolescent challenges, particularly for girls. This book illuminates the tensions between and among adults and youth attempting to make sense of sex in a society that was then, as much as today, both sex-phobic and sex-saturated. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252075315
ISBN
9780252075315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

Hardcover. Demonstrates that the intersection between race, gender, and class formed the backbone of Progressive-Era debates over sex education, the policing of sexuality, and the prevention of venereal disease. Series: Gender and Race in American History. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ; JFSL; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465359
ISBN
9781580465359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. .
Publisher
Melbourne University Press Australia
Number of pages
255
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780522866551
ISBN
9780522866551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 86.81

Hardback. Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Series: Themes in History. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745625225
ISBN
9780745625225
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.84

Paperback. Sex and the Weimar Republic shows how, in Weimar Germany, the citizen's right to sexual freedom came with a duty to keep sexuality private, non-commercial, and respectable. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSK; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442626577
ISBN
9781442626577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Paperback. Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for 'gross indecency'. Num Pages: 476 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHBK5; LAZ; LNFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 199 x 36. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
The Westbourne Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
476
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908906106
ISBN
9781908906106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.52

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
AK Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849351324
ISBN
9781849351324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JHM; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783780563
ISBN
9781783780563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.95

hardcover. A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the civilized West has had with decapitated heads and skulls." Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; JHM; PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Ltd United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871404541
ISBN
9780871404541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.96

paperback. The Seventh Inning Stretch, by noted baseball expert Josh Pahigian addresses all of the most interesting baseball arguments, however frivolous, that fans have been engaging in for decades, and even a few they may have never stopped to consider before. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 190 x 18. Weight in Grams: 39.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lyons Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9781599218052
ISBN
9781599218052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.73

Num Pages: 119 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 124 x 13. Weight in Grams: 159.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Exile Editions Canada
Number of pages
119
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550963915
ISBN
9781550963915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 239 x 32. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
PM Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629630373
ISBN
9781629630373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.59

Paperback. A study of law and imperialism, this title argues that modern settler sovereignty emerged when settlers in North America and Australia defined indigenous theft and violence as crime. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MBF; HBTQ; JFSL9; LNDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674061880
ISBN
9780674061880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.81

Hardback. Series: Early American Histories. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 maps, 14 charts, 176 tables. BIC Classification: 1KJWJ; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813938318
ISBN
9780813938318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; DSB; HBG; HBTB; HBW; HBWQ; JFSK2; JFSL9; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816690602
ISBN
9780816690602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardback. A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332. A Theoretical Overview. 192 pages, 6 figures. A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBG; HBTQ. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 15. Weight: 332.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230220973
ISBN
9780230220973
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.66

Hardback. This book examines the performative life reconciliation and its discontents in settler societies. It explores the refoundings of the settler state and reimaginings of its alternatives, as well as the way the past is mobilized and reworked in the name of social transformation within a new global paradigm of reconciliation and the 'age of apology'. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HBTR; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137304537
ISBN
9781137304537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.74

Hardback. Presents historical perspectives on the theory, practices, and policies of nutrition science in Western Europe and the United States from the 1860s to the 1960s. Editor(s): Neswald, Elizabeth; Smith, David F.; Thoms, Ulrike. Num Pages: 238 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFF; MBNH3; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580465762
ISBN
9781580465762
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.22

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