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Hardcover. Tappings on tables, questionable curatives, old wives' tales and whispers from beyond the grave - Victorians were fascinated by the supernatural. This title offers a layman's guide to 'matters magical and mysterious', and today is a quirky glimpse of a supernatural age now lost, by turns haunting and hilarious. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Old House
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781908402738
- ISBN
- 9781908402738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 8.97
€ 8.97
Hardcover. Tappings on tables, questionable curatives, old wives' tales and whispers from beyond the grave - Victorians were fascinated by the supernatural. This title offers a layman's guide to 'matters magical and mysterious', and today is a quirky glimpse of a supernatural age now lost, by turns haunting and hilarious. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298. Large format, illustrated. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Old House
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KEX0236063
- ISBN
- 9781908402738
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 8.97
€ 8.97
Paperback. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JPA; JPS; JPVH; JPWL; JWXK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- Interlink Pub Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566569743
- ISBN
- 9781566569743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.12
€ 20.99
€ 20.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 12 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFFD; JHMC; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295999135
- ISBN
- 9780295999135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
€ 37.99
€ 34.25
paperback. Compounding history, investigation and travelogue, this outlines one of the bitterest political stories of our age. In 1973, Pinochet overthrew the Chilean democratic socialist government of Allende. In 1998, Spanish efforts to indict him for crimes against humanity revived the ideological divide. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DSE; 1KLSH; 3JJP; HBTV; JPS; JPVH; JPWQ; LBBD; LBBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571215478
- ISBN
- 9780571215478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.46
€ 15.99
€ 11.46
Paperback. The drama and tragedy behind history's most infamous shipwrecks. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8-page colour plate section. BIC Classification: HBTM; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848664333
- ISBN
- 9781848664333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Series: Shire album. Num Pages: 32 pages, b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBTB; TDCW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 2. Weight in Grams: 80. New.
- Publisher
- Shire Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 32
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780852635834
- ISBN
- 9780852635834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.59
€ 7.59
Paperback. This edition brings the discussion of perennial hot-button issues such as big-time sports programs up to date and addresses such current areas of contention as the changing role of governing boards and the financial challenges posed by the economic downturn. Num Pages: 504 pages, 20, 4 black & white line drawings, 16 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JNB; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 32. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402673
- ISBN
- 9781421402673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.68
€ 31.99
€ 26.68
Paperback. George Ciccariello-Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory. Series: Radical Americas. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; 3JM; HBTQ; HBTS; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822362432
- ISBN
- 9780822362432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.21
€ 27.99
€ 26.21
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472554727
- ISBN
- 9781472554727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.23
€ 40.99
€ 36.23
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861977571
- ISBN
- 9781861977571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.68
€ 15.99
€ 11.68
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HBTB; HRAX; HRC; HRCX; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Zondervan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780310532156
- ISBN
- 9780310532156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.07
€ 18.99
€ 17.07
Hardback. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and governments offered to pay their subjects to have more children. This book focuses on Eastern Japan, where population growth resumed in the nineteenth century. Series: Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes. Num Pages: 439 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 21 line illustrations, 17 maps, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3J; HBJF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 388
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272439
- ISBN
- 9780520272439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.37€ 64.66
€ 84.37
€ 64.66
paperback. A study of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps. Num Pages: 128 pages, 115 colour. BIC Classification: HBTP; JFHF; RGV; WTRM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 239 x 13. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Publisher
- British Library
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712357715
- ISBN
- 9780712357715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. Cover s the heyday of Londons gang era. Num Pages: 208 pages, Integrated. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; BTC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473894761
- ISBN
- 9781473894761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.02
€ 20.99
€ 19.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPQ; MBDC; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403987242
- ISBN
- 9781403987242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 35.79
€ 43.99
€ 35.79
Paperback. Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies classes. Translator(s): Lamont, Rosette C. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300190779
- ISBN
- 9780300190779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.93
€ 23.99
€ 17.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780771012938
- ISBN
- 9780771012938
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.80
€ 23.99
€ 20.80
Hardback. This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398. The Civil Rights Struggle, African American Gis, and Germany. 282 pages, illustrations. This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 15. Weight: 398.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 282
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104730
- ISBN
- 9780230104730
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.46
€ 75.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; AVGP; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 231 x 37. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Publisher
- Rogan House United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780952954071
- ISBN
- 9780952954071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.71
€ 25.99
€ 19.71
Hardback. An in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in 19th and early 20th-century Britain, this book focusses on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, exploring shifts in the public image of the 'man of science , and questioning the natural scientist as a modern masculine hero. Series: Genders and Sexualities in History. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137311733
- ISBN
- 9781137311733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.01
€ 135.01
Hardback. In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain's imperial ambitions before the Revolution. Num Pages: 420 pages, maps. BIC Classification: HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 23 x 15. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674972117
- ISBN
- 9780674972117
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.84
€ 47.99
€ 39.84
Paperback.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752448046
- ISBN
- 9780752448046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.68
€ 24.99
€ 21.68
Paperback. Comfort, cake and courting: the tea ceremony in the golden age of tea Num Pages: 96 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBTB; JFCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 235 x 9. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445650319
- ISBN
- 9781445650319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 16.75
€ 19.00
€ 16.75