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Paperback. Since the time of the Vikings, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend on it for survival, and people have shaped the Atlantic. In his account of this interdependency, Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBTP; KNAF; RGR; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 26. Weight in Grams: 638.
Publisher
Belknap Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First American Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674283961
ISBN
9780674283961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 40. Weight in Grams: 964.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199385652
ISBN
9780199385652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.57

paperback. Offers an analysis of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan, this book explains how the decision to murder the Jews en masse emerged in stages and by a process of elimination that gradually foreclosed plans for their expulsion from Europe. Num Pages: 640 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099454823
ISBN
9780099454823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. The crew of the HMS Enterprise, searching for the missing Franklin expedition, sees steadily worsening relations between captain and officers. Num Pages: 332 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1MTN; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
332
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888644725
ISBN
9780888644725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752442938
ISBN
9780752442938
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.57

Hardback. Long interested in Nazi Germany, Dixon, now an investigator for the London police, presents his first book on it, emphasizing what is most important to him: the personalities of the people involved. He profiles 162 SS officers who served at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, of whom some served during the entire time the camp was in operation, Num Pages: 256 pages, over 130 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1426. The SS Officers Who Ran the Largest Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-1945. 256 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JWD. Dimension: 287 x 228 x 24. Weight: 1420.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764321757
ISBN
9780764321757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.35
€ 46.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 608 pages, BW images throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408867648
ISBN
9781408867648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.79

Hardcover. Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain. Num Pages: 256 pages, 350 illustrations, 250 in colour. BIC Classification: HBTB; MBPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 191 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1212.
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780500518977
ISBN
9780500518977
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.54

Paperback. In 1975 Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record of his experiences there, of a city and a country that seemed, for a prolonged period, to have taken leave of the world, to enter a nightmare of anarchy. Translator(s): Brand, William; Mrockowska-Brand, Katarzyna. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1HFMA; BG; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186788
ISBN
9780141186788
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Examines the design, development and operational history of the Soviet Union's Cold War SPAAGs: the ZSU-37, ZSU-57-2, the infamous ZSU-23-4, and the 9K22 Tunguska. This study explores the history of the SPAAGs with revealing photographs, technical illustrations and detailed analysis. Illustrator(s): Morshead, Henry. Series: New Vanguard. Num Pages: 48 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTW; JWMV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 184 x 6. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472806222
ISBN
9781472806222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Anniversary
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231171694
ISBN
9780231171694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.41

Paperback. John Gross is the son of a Jewish doctor who practised at the time of the Second World War. His parents were the children of immigrants, steeped in the language and traditions of a European past, yet outside the home he grew up in a very English world of schools and books. Looking back on his childhood, Gross reflects on this double inheritance. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; BGA; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099422266
ISBN
9780099422266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. The first-ever comprehensive biography of Heinrich Himmler, SS-Reichsfuhrer, Nazi Interior Minister, and Chief of Police, whose name has become a byword for the terror, persecution, and destruction that characterized the Third Reich. Num Pages: 1072 pages, 31 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1344.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199651740
ISBN
9780199651740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 32.50

Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTZ; LNDC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784537227
ISBN
9781784537227
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.60
€ 126.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESU; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
The University of Buckingham Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908684097
ISBN
9781908684097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.71

Paperback. The Medieval World View, Third Edition, presents the presuppositions of medieval society in a systematic fashion by integrating brief, self-contained selections from primary texts and carefully captioned photographs into a narrative of the medieval world and its foundations. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195373684
ISBN
9780195373684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 111.54

Hardback. Nazis began detaining Jews in camps as soon as they came to power in 1933. Kim Wunschmann reveals the origin of these extralegal detention sites, the harsh treatment Jews received there, and the message the camps sent to Germans: that Jews were enemies of the state, dangerous to associate with and fair game for acts of intimidation and violence. Num Pages: 367 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 728.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674967595
ISBN
9780674967595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.60
€ 50.58

Paperback. 2008 reissue of the 19th century classic. Editor(s): Andrews, William L. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGA; HBTS; JFSL3; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199552399
ISBN
9780199552399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages, numerous maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 232 x 26. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Usa
Number of pages
398
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192892638
ISBN
9780192892638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.96

Paperback. Drawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as Islamic accounts, this title provides perspectives of the corsairs and an insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a life so violent, so uncertain and so alien that it sets you apart from the rest of mankind. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099523864
ISBN
9780099523864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Dazzling recreation of the world of radical free-thinkers in 18th-century France. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 215 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780220109
ISBN
9781780220109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions. This work presents history of the camp: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late 1940s and eventual collapse in the era of glasnost. Num Pages: 624 pages, 16pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
First Penguin Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140283105
ISBN
9780140283105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

Hardback. A comprehensive history of deafness, signed languages, and the unresolved struggles of the Deaf to be taught in their unspoken tongue Num Pages: 280 pages, 30 b/w illus. BIC Classification: CFF; CFZ; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300215434
ISBN
9780300215434
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 17.01

Paperback. .
Publisher
Frith Book Company Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Pbk. ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859373170
ISBN
9781859373170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.02

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