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paperback. Includes grandparents and great-grandparents who sum up in their own words the vast changes that have overtaken China's people over a century. This book is also at once a journey by the author through time and place, and a memorial to those who have lived through war and civil war, persecution, invasion, revolution, famine, and, Westernization. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations (some col.), map, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; HBTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099501480
ISBN
9780099501480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.29

hardcover. Editor(s): Langlois, John D. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 516 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2AB; DNF; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
516
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691642666
ISBN
9780691642666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 250.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; JPFC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 23 x 15. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674975491
ISBN
9780674975491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.94

Paperback. Has China's modernization over the last 100 years depended on turning to the West? What new problems has growing prosperity created for China? This sourcebook tells the momentous history of China since 1919 mainly from the viewpoints of participants. Editor(s): Lawrance, Alan. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 175 x 19. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415251426
ISBN
9780415251426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.03

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 298 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691650111
ISBN
9780691650111
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.03

Paperback. Presents in visual detail an introduction to almost 2000 years of Chinese history - from the founding of the Chinese Empire in 221 BCE to the Ming dynasty, the last dynasty to rule before the country opened to the outside world in the middle of the seventeenth century. This book is suitable for travelers, students, and general readers. Series: Dictionaries of Civilization. Num Pages: 384 pages, 250 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 692.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520259072
ISBN
9780520259072
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. Series: Shire Album S. Num Pages: 32 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: AMKD; HBTB; TNKH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 139 x 4. Weight in Grams: 96.
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
9780747805533
ISBN
9780747805533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.59

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781526701350
ISBN
9781526701350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Hardback. Offers a look at the people and politics behind the various chains of rescue as well as the personal narratives of the children who left everything behind in the hope of finding safety. This title examines the religious and political tensions that emerged throughout the migration and at times threatened to bring operations to a halt. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 149 x 26. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848855373
ISBN
9781848855373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.43
€ 54.16

Hardback. Age was a critical factor in shaping imperial experience, yet it has not received any sustained scholarly attention. This pioneering interdisciplinary collection is the first to investigate the lives of children and young people and the construction of modes of childhood and youth within the British world. Editor(s): Robinson, Shirleene; Sleight, Simon. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137489401
ISBN
9781137489401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.14

Paperback. Wartime Britain through the eyes of children who were there. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BM; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Amberley
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445647203
ISBN
9781445647203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.46

Paperback. .
Publisher
Floris Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863156670
ISBN
9780863156670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. We don't often recognize the humble activity of cooking for the revolutionary cultural adaptation that it is. But when the hearth fires started burning in the Paleolithic, humankind broadened the exploitation of food and took one of several great leaps forward. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; KNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 209 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393931532
ISBN
9780393931532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.11

paperback. Drawing on contemporary reports and illustrations, Eileen Wallace focuses on the lives of working children in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire employed in agriculture, straw-plaiting, silk-throwing, paper and brickmaking and as chimney sweeps. Num Pages: 192 pages, 35. BIC Classification: 1DBKEST; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hertfordshire Publications
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905313495
ISBN
9781905313495
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.56

Hardback. Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). Series: Protest, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 352 pages, 33 figures. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782380009
ISBN
9781782380009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.42

Hardback. Children of Lucifer tells the history of Satanism, from its earliest conception as polemical construct by the Christian Church to its eventual metamorphosis into an actual practiced religion. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; HRAX; HRQ; HRQX9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 250 x 50. Weight in Grams: 984.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190275105
ISBN
9780190275105
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.28

Paperback. A collection of eyewitness accounts by Cambodian survivors of Pol Pot's genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. Each witness was a child at the time of Cambodia's holocaust, and each tells of families torn apart, struggles to survive, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. Editor(s): DePaul, Kim. Series: Southeast Asia Studies Monograph Series. Num Pages: 218 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMC; BG; HBJD; HBJF; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
218
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300078732
ISBN
9780300078732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.66

Paperback. Bethnal Green is at the heart of London's East End, infamous as the stamping ground of gangland bosses the Kray Twins. In this book the world of Bethnal Green's back streets in the 1920s, 1930s and during the Second World War is vividly recalled including the endless struggle to make ends meet, the little shops, street sellers, etc. Num Pages: 130 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 172 x 11. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750938150
ISBN
9780750938150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.60

Hardback. The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct challenges for researchers, requiring them to often follow simultaneous, disparate narratives. This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians, psychologists, and other scholars to explore child survivors' accounts. Editor(s): Fogelman, Eva; Ofer, Dalia. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ1; JFSP1; JMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785334382
ISBN
9781785334382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.45

Paperback. The centenary of the First World War has brought with it much attention on the lives of those left behind at home. This book explains how the daily life of children one hundred years ago was affected by war. Series: Britain's Heritage Series. Num Pages: 64 pages, 80. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBTB; HBWN; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165. .
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445668765
ISBN
9781445668765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.33

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