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History: specific events & topics
Hardback. Hartog tells the heartbreaking stories of how families fought over the work of caring for the elderly, and its compensation, in a time before pensions, Social Security, and nursing homes filled this gap. As an explosive economy drew the young away from home, we see how the elderly used promises of inheritance to keep children at their side. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; LNW; VFVX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674046887
- ISBN
- 9780674046887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.32
€ 47.99
€ 39.32
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Brewin Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781858581194
- ISBN
- 9781858581194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.88
€ 11.88
Paperback. The next chapter in Robert Douglas's remarkable life story picks up from the bestselling NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340898444
- ISBN
- 9780340898444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. Rita Joe is celebrated as a poet, an educator, and an ambassador. In 1989, she accepted the Order of Canada 'on behalf of native people across the nation'. This title tells her story: her education in an Indian residential school, her turbulent marriage, and the daily struggles within her family and community. Series: American Indian Lives. Num Pages: 199 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 220 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803275942
- ISBN
- 9780803275942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.30
€ 18.30
Hardback. A discharged official in mid-Ming China faced significant changes in his life. This book explores three such officials in the sixteenth century - Wang Jiusi, Kang Hai, and Li Kaixian - who turned to literary endeavors when forced to retire. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056046
- ISBN
- 9780674056046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.31
€ 44.99
€ 37.31
Hardcover. From the children of Victoria's reign to the kids of the new millennium, Songs of Innocence explores the seismic shift in attitudes to our formative years and reveals what has made successive generations young. Num Pages: 304 pages, black and white frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 598. The Story of British Childhood. 304 pages, black and white frontispiece. From the children of Victoria's reign to the kids of the new millennium, Songs of Innocence explores the seismic shift in attitudes to our formative years and reveals what has made successive generations young. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSP1. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 28. Weight: 598.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843548966
- ISBN
- 9781843548966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 17.97
€ 26.99
€ 17.97
Paperback. In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. This book presents a portrait of the uses of verse in America. It shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. Num Pages: 488 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 141 x 31. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674035126
- ISBN
- 9780674035126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.23
€ 35.99
€ 30.23
Paperback. Brings history, politics, and research to the author's study of four resettlement communities, including refugee centers in Palawan and Bataan, the early refugee community in New Jersey, and the largest of all Vietnamese communities Little Saigon, in southern California's Orange County. This title looks at diasporic Vietnamese in each location. Num Pages: 218 pages, 12 b&w illustrations, 3 tables, 6 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFFD; JFFN; JHBT; JHM; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566396868
- ISBN
- 9781566396868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.43
€ 36.99
€ 33.43
Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canad...
Bouchard, Michel; Foxcurran, Robert; Malette,...
paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 242 x 30. Weight in Grams: 814.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Baraka Books Canada
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781771860819
- ISBN
- 9781771860819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.60
€ 35.99
€ 32.60
Paperback. Manners: the quintessential business of being English. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBTB; JHBT; WJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Murray Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848546677
- ISBN
- 9781848546677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Paperback. Paperback, green spine.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Sotheby's London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- SKU
- KON0819478
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 14.99€ 5.49
€ 14.99
€ 5.49
Paperback. This work tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving into heart of the domestic slave trade, the slave market. Taking the reader inside the New Orleans slave market the author transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the human drama of traders, buyers, and slaves. Num Pages: 320 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674005396
- ISBN
- 9780674005396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.35
€ 34.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony. Series: Contemporary Black History. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108974
- ISBN
- 9780230108974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.43€ 48.84
€ 76.43
€ 48.84
Paperback. Introduces the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound Num Pages: 344 pages, 27 illustrations (including 2 in colour), 5 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; AVGH; HBTB; JHBT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502. Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression. 344 pages, 27 illustrations (including 2 in colour), 5 tables, 1 map. Introduces the anthropology of sound, or the cultural study of sound. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; AVGH; HBTB; JHBT; JHMC. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 21. Weight: 498.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Third
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353652
- ISBN
- 9780822353652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.69
€ 32.99
€ 31.69
Hardcover. Editor(s): Davies, James Q.; Lockhart, Ellen. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226402079
- ISBN
- 9780226402079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.45€ 47.88
€ 56.45
€ 47.88
Paperback. Morton, so have business strategies, patent battles, and a host of other factors. Num Pages: 232 pages, 28, 28 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBT; TJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801883989
- ISBN
- 9780801883989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.29
€ 32.99
€ 27.29
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719082740
- ISBN
- 9780719082740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.44€ 28.51
€ 76.44
€ 28.51
Paperback. Editor(s): Bijsterveld, Karin. Num Pages: 230 pages, 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: AVC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837621792
- ISBN
- 9783837621792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 32.24
€ 44.99
€ 32.24
Hardback. A collection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, this text provides a resource for scholars and students and an introduction for general readers. Editor(s): De Bary, William Theodore; Cohen, Irene. Series: Introduction to Asian Civilizations. Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; HRKN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1589.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 944
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231109383
- ISBN
- 9780231109383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.30€ 106.13
€ 142.30
€ 106.13
Hardcover. The acknowledged master of Holocaust historians offers an analysis of the nature of the sources, with attention to structure, style, and content. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566633796
- ISBN
- 9781566633796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.91
€ 33.91