History: specific events & topics
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History: specific events & topics
Paperback. Setting education in its political context, this book, now in paperback, offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of modern schooling and examination, to the rise (and fall) of meritocracy. In challenging all that is well-intentioned in education, it reveals how our educational commitments are always underwritten by violence. Num Pages: 312 pages, 26 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBTB; JNA; JNL; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137593924
- ISBN
- 9781137593924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.12
€ 122.12
Hardback. A new collection of twelve sad but true stories documenting the hardship of World War 1. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910745137
- ISBN
- 9781910745137
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.59
€ 23.99
€ 16.59
Hardback. 'From Moscow to Cuba and Beyond' vividly evokes the joys as well as the difficulties of life as an expatriate and diplomat under Stalin, Tito and Castro, as well as of the particular demands of diplomatic life in the USA. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 bw integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BM; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTW; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 150 x 31. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848854741
- ISBN
- 9781848854741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.33€ 54.65
€ 59.33
€ 54.65
Hardback. The mesmerizing story of two countries caught in history whose rivalry can destroy the world or restore its peace, this is the first book to untangle the complex relationship of Saudi Arabia and Iran by rejecting heated rhetoric and looking at the real roots of the issue to promise pathways to peace. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1FBXS; HBT; JPR; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137576279
- ISBN
- 9781137576279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.39€ 93.21
€ 111.39
€ 93.21
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822363194
- ISBN
- 9780822363194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.50
€ 31.99
€ 28.50
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199782376
- ISBN
- 9780199782376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.57
€ 35.99
€ 33.57
Paperback. Editor(s): O'Donnell, Ruan. Num Pages: 215 pages, 20 black and white photos. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBTV; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 225 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Merrion Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785370663
- ISBN
- 9781785370663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Instead of looking inward for renewal, Americans looked outward for ways to restore their moral leadership. From world's judge to world's policeman was a small step, and intervention in the name of human rights became a cause both the left and right could embrace. This book shows that human rights emerged as a reaction to the Vietnam trauma. Num Pages: 324 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674724853
- ISBN
- 9780674724853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.18
€ 53.99
€ 45.18
Hardcover. Amsterdam's Atlantic puts Dutch Brazil back on the front pages and argues that the way the Amsterdam media constructed Atlantic events was a key element in the transformation of public opinion in Europe. Series: The Early Modern Americas. Num Pages: 272 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JD; HBJK; HBLH; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 30. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248661
- ISBN
- 9780812248661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.12
€ 52.12
Paperback. This is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to the history of theatre, ranging from Ancient Egyptian festivals to contemporary performance arts. Lavishly illustrated in black and white and colour throughout, this is the perfect book for theatre goer and student alike Editor(s): Brown, John Russell. Series: Oxford Illustrated History. Num Pages: 592 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: AN; HBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 190 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1266.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192854421
- ISBN
- 9780192854421
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.39
€ 37.99
€ 27.39
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Univ College Dublin Pr
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904558408
- ISBN
- 9781904558408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 323 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; WBXD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 204 x 19. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307338785
- ISBN
- 9780307338785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.42
€ 19.99
€ 17.42
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192803115
- ISBN
- 9780192803115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.05
€ 27.99
€ 21.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BM; BTH; HBJF; HBTB; HBWS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447253365
- ISBN
- 9781447253365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Inspirational stories of what women achieved against the odds Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473882249
- ISBN
- 9781473882249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.21
€ 17.99
€ 14.21
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, over 900 color and b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBT; JWTU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 308 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2466.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764325823
- ISBN
- 9780764325823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.29€ 71.71
€ 97.29
€ 71.71
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 5H; HBJK; HBTB; JFC; WJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Encounter Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594038938
- ISBN
- 9781594038938
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.46
€ 27.99
€ 25.46
Paperback. Recounts the struggle for human rights across the ages and synthesizes historical and intellectual developments since the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi. This book chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies that have played a part in this struggle, and illustrates how the history of human rights has evolved. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: HBT; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 30. Weight in Grams: 650. From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. 480 pages, Illustrations. Recounts the struggle for human rights across the ages and synthesizes historical and intellectual developments since the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi. This book chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies that have played a part in this struggle, and illustrates how the history of human rights has evolved. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HBT; JPVH. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 30. Weight: 644.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256415
- ISBN
- 9780520256415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.26
€ 40.99
€ 29.26
Hardcover. Concise historical introduction to Thomas More and his continuing influence on the world and how we see it. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- SPCK Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780281077380
- ISBN
- 9780281077380
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.04
€ 18.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. Examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. This book takes us all the way to the organizing fever of Los Angeles, where the labor movement stands at the center of the effort to transform millions of new immigrants into alert citizen unionists. Series: Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America. Num Pages: 400 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBTB; KNXB2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Revised and Expanded edition with a New preface an
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691160276
- ISBN
- 9780691160276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.30
€ 30.99
€ 22.30
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6, 1 black & white halftones, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBTW; JWG; JWK; JWMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801452482
- ISBN
- 9780801452482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.62
€ 49.62
Hardback. With unprecedented access to their hitherto sealed records, this is the first volume of a remarkable official history of ASIO - a revealing and authoritative account of the early years of Australia's national security intelligence service. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJP; HBTW; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 170 x 242 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1298.
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781743319666
- ISBN
- 9781743319666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.06€ 49.90
€ 51.06
€ 49.90
Paperback. The Andes form the backbone of South America. The mountain range was home to an extraordinary theocratic empire and civilisation, the Incas, who built stone temples, roads, palaces and forts. Series: Landscapes of the Imagination. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Signal Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904955542
- ISBN
- 9781904955542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.69
€ 19.99
€ 19.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 66, 54 black & white halftones, 9 tables, 2 maps, 1 charts. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HB; HBJD; HBJH; HBTR; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801456527
- ISBN
- 9780801456527
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.64
€ 45.99
€ 40.64