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Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801487866
ISBN
9780801487866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.84

Paperback. Provides a fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. This title illuminates a social world based on love, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398. Love and Survival in Sierra Leone. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. 296 pages, illustrations. Provides a fresh insight into how ordinary Sierra Leoneans survived the war that devastated their country for a decade. This title illuminates a social world based on love, compassionate relationship based on material exchange and nurturing, that transcends romance and binds people together across space. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX; JHMC. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 18. Weight: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520273795
ISBN
9780520273795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.89

Hardcover. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880336611
ISBN
9780880336611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.70

paperback. This portrait of the controversial figure, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), aims to balance the outward life and actions of Bacon with the seemingly contradictory aspects of his refined philosophical reflections. Num Pages: 245 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH; HPC; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3226 x 5182 x 19. Weight in Grams: 389.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823215386
ISBN
9780823215386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. Telling Tales both challenges founding myths of the region and inspires rethinking of how we tell the story of western Canadian colonization and settlement. Editor(s): Cavanaugh, Catherine A.; Warne, Randi R. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780774807951
ISBN
9780774807951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.36

Hardcover. Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles not withstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the 18th century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. This book details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit's history. Series: American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226096704
ISBN
9780226096704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 42.95

Hardback. In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1KBBEN; HBJH; JFFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360278
ISBN
9780822360278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Paperback. In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the lives of a group of Somali Bantu refugees over the course of three decades, from their pre-civil war homes and terrible experiences in Kenyan refugee camps, to their recent resettlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Series: Global Insecurities. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1KBBEN; HBJH; JFFD; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360445
ISBN
9780822360445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

paperback. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank cramped suite of rooms in the servants' quarters of his own home, Belvoir Castle, in Leicestershire. Num Pages: 480 pages, 24pp b/w photo inset. BIC Classification: 1DBKEML; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 38. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141035673
ISBN
9780141035673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain and belonged to the Fitzwilliam family. This title tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, and a tragic and violent death played their part. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141019239
ISBN
9780141019239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. A fascinating portrait of the capital's dark and criminal underbelly throughout history Num Pages: 352 pages, B&W illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849832922
ISBN
9781849832922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.52

Paperback. A fascinating portrait of life in Shakespeare's London, seen from the theatrical perspective, by popular historian, Catharine Arnold. Num Pages: 320 pages, B&W illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471125706
ISBN
9781471125706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.54

Paperback. Catherine Allgor describes the various ways genteel elite women during the first decades of the 19th century used "social events" and the "private sphere" to establish the national capital and to build the extraofficial structures so sorely needed in the infant federal government. Series: Jeffersonian America. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 517.
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921181
ISBN
9780813921181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.78

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843191
ISBN
9781843843191
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Paperback. Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths provides a concise and compelling introduction to the Third Reich. At the same time, it challenges and demystifies the many stereotypes surrounding Hitler and Nazi Germany. Series: Wiley Short Histories. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118294789
ISBN
9781118294789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.67

Paperback. Revolutions are often seen in terms of a spontaneous burst of intense political activity; less attention usually is given to the structures, processes, and perceptions that make such activity possible. This book examines such long-term transformations as they relate to the revolution in the Central African nation of Rwanda. Num Pages: 322 pages, maps, tables, figures, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ; HBTR; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231062572
ISBN
9780231062572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.64

Paperback. A vivid historical narrative of how London has dealt with its dead from pagan burial rites through the Black Death to the Blitz and the death of Diana. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8pp b-w. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781416502487
ISBN
9781416502487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.26

Paperback.
Publisher
THP Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
9781845882266
ISBN
9781845882266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 6.23

Hardback. This work of social and cultural history paints a comprehensive picture of indigenous society from the point of view of households throughout a large region of central Mexico, from the middle of the seventeenth century up through the end of the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804781374
ISBN
9780804781374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 150 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; BGH; HBJD1; JPHL; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 182 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
The History Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841657349
ISBN
9781841657349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.40

Paperback. Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. Translator(s): Scott-Kilvert, Ian. Num Pages: 368 pages, maps, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140444483
ISBN
9780140444483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. By the end of the 15th century Cassandra Fedele was arguably the most famous woman writer and scholar in Europe. This collection of letters reveals the central, mediating role Cassandra Fedele occupied in a community of scholars otherwise inaccessible to women. Translator(s): Robin, Diana. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; BJ; DNF; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226239323
ISBN
9780226239323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.84

Paperback. On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in , their ruthless punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were killed or driven out into the desert to die. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1HFMN; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBJH; HBTR; HBTZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571231423
ISBN
9780571231423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.54

Hardcover. "Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a more deeply researched and convincing account. " --Evan Connell, author Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and most meticulously researched. Num Pages: 416 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 167 x 40. Weight in Grams: 808.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471189671
ISBN
9780471189671
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.36

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