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Paperback. This latest volume in the series is a book on nation-building in post-apartheid South Africa. Series: Inventing the Nation (Paperback). Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFM; HBJH; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780931920
- ISBN
- 9781780931920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.95
€ 35.99
€ 30.95
Paperback. Disagreeing with interpretations of the Fascist movement and regime as "revolutionary" and "leftist", this work, while not ignoring the importance of ideology, sees Fascism in Italy as a bourgeois response to the challenge of proletarian revolution and an approach to the problem of conservative control in an era of mass politics. Num Pages: 208 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPA; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Third
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803266223
- ISBN
- 9780803266223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
paperback. This is a translation of the 1867 work by Alexander Hold, 'Geschichte der Feldzugs in Italien 1866', which describes in detail the campaign of the previous year, fought between the armed forces of the Austrian empire and the kingdom of Italy in the Austrian province of Venetia, the southern Tyrol and on the Adriatic Sea. Translator(s): Sutherland, Stuart. Num Pages: 152 pages, maps, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Helion & Company United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906033620
- ISBN
- 9781906033620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
€ 33.99
€ 24.42
Paperback. The Federalist Papers comprise eighty-five essays written to persuade New Yorkers to ratify the Constitution of the United States in 1787-8. Written by key players in the American Revolution, they made a case for a new, united nation. They are the most important work of political thought to have come out of America. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages, one map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; LAZ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192805928
- ISBN
- 9780192805928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
hardcover. Beyond the Nation? outlines how German-Canadians invented ethnicity under Canadian expectations, and provides moving case studies of how notable immigrant groups integrated into Canadian society. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 Figures, 2 Maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442642782
- ISBN
- 9781442642782
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.28
€ 74.28
Num Pages: 304 pages, 543 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 215. Weight in Grams: 2132.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764349096
- ISBN
- 9780764349096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.05€ 50.15
€ 65.05
€ 50.15
Hardcover. Num Pages: 340 pages, 649 colour & b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 215. Weight in Grams: 1842.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764349119
- ISBN
- 9780764349119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.05€ 46.73
€ 65.05
€ 46.73
Hardcover. Katyn the Soviet massacre of over 21,000 Polish prisoners in 1940 has come to be remembered as Stalin s emblematic mass murder, an event obscured by one of the most extensive cover-ups in history. Yet paradoxically, a majority of its victims perished far from the forest in western Russia that gives the tragedy its name. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745655765
- ISBN
- 9780745655765
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Paperback. This book gives a radically new reading of Russia s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745651309
- ISBN
- 9780745651309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.47
€ 27.47
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459589
- ISBN
- 9780857459589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.12€ 73.48
€ 117.12
€ 73.48
Hardback. Offers historical, cultural, and political account in English of the Japanese martial art of swordsmanship. This book shows how this martial art evolved through a recurring process of "inventing tradition," which served the changing ideologies and needs of Japanese warriors and governments over the course of history. Num Pages: 328 pages, 19 b/w, 6 line drawings, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; WSTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284371
- ISBN
- 9780520284371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. Focuses on the communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, this work sketches out the problems that face industrialized nations, whether socialist or capitalist. Translator(s): Rougle, Charles. Series: Soviet History, Politics, Society, & Thought S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 b&w photos. BIC Classification: HBJD; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253203175
- ISBN
- 9780253203175
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.92
€ 20.99
€ 20.92
Hardback. Published here for the first time is a crucial document in the history of American radicalism--the "Prison Blossoms," a series of essays, narratives, poems, and fables composed by three activist anarchists imprisoned for the 1892 assault on anti-union steel tycoon Henry Clay Frick. Editor(s): Brody, Miriam; Buettner, Bonnie. Series: The John Harvard Library. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JPFB; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674050563
- ISBN
- 9780674050563
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.27
€ 47.99
€ 40.27
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPA; JPHV; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231181105
- ISBN
- 9780231181105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.46
€ 40.99
€ 35.46
Paperback. This book charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence of the Gaelic-speaking Scots who would replace them as the rulers of the North. Series: New Edinburgh History of Scotland. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 638. Series: New Edinburgh History of Scotland. 400 pages, 11 black & white illustrations. This book charts the transformation of the political landscape of northern Britain between the eighth and the eleventh centuries. Central to this narrative is the mysterious disappearance of the Picts and their language and the sudden rise to prominence of the Gaelic-speaking Scots who would replace them as the rulers of the North. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1DBKS; HBJD1; HBLC. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 28. Weight: 630.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748612345
- ISBN
- 9780748612345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.77
€ 34.99
€ 29.77
An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban / Al-Qaeda Merger in Afgh...
Alex Strick Van Linschoten
Hardback. Taken from the Taliban's perspective based on local sources This is the first book to address seriously the problem of conflating the Taliban with Al-Qaeda. It is from the Taliban's perspective based on local sources. The authors are Western researchers based on the ground in Kandahar Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLX; HBWS4; JPS; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 151 x 36. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849041546
- ISBN
- 9781849041546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.98
€ 46.99
€ 41.98
Paperback. This volume will throw new light on the intellect of the earliest English - the way they thought, the way they viewed the world, and the way they viewed worlds other than this. Num Pages: 208 pages, 35 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLC1; HDDM; HRQ; VXWS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 171 x 13. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842173954
- ISBN
- 9781842173954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 44.54
€ 47.99
€ 44.54
Num Pages: 400 pages, over 530 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBWN; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 281 x 227 x 43. Weight in Grams: 2034.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764324208
- ISBN
- 9780764324208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.70€ 57.65
€ 75.70
€ 57.65
Paperback. A general historical introduction to the Muslims of Medieval Italy which presents specific information regarding social, religious, administrative, political, cultural, artistic and intellectual questions. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. Num Pages: 336 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAX; HRH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 580. Series: The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys. 336 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. A general historical introduction to the Muslims of Medieval Italy which presents specific information regarding social, religious, administrative, political, cultural, artistic and intellectual questions. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HRAX; HRH. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight: 580.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620081
- ISBN
- 9780748620081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.38
€ 38.99
€ 35.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; DNF; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Blacksmith Books Hong Kong
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789881613943
- ISBN
- 9789881613943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. From the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks. A maverick officer - and the only man to survive his company's wartime odyssey from bitter beginning to victorious end. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099568797
- ISBN
- 9780099568797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
paperback. The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese "economic miracle" failed to notice a key point - that in pursuit of this miracle, the Japanese had turned their country into a concrete shambles. This book describes the dazzling nature of Japanese culture and its ruination. Num Pages: 448 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141010007
- ISBN
- 9780141010007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.29
€ 20.99
€ 15.29
Hardback. Editor(s): Jackson, Alex M.; Jones, Madison S. Num Pages: 179 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 178 x 17. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 179
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781621009948
- ISBN
- 9781621009948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 220.03€ 149.95
€ 220.03
€ 149.95
Hardcover. Tells the story of 1,564 Torahs stolen by Nazis from a synagogue in Czechoslovakia, rescued twenty years later, and placed in the hands of people who love them. Num Pages: 40 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWN. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 213 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Gefen Books
- Number of pages
- 40
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652292360
- ISBN
- 9789652292360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.20
€ 18.99
€ 14.20