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Paperback. A psychological portrait of the twenty-sixth president of the United States, a man whose personal obsession with masculinity profoundly influenced the fate of a nation. This book argues that Theodore Roosevelt struggled, like many of his contemporaries, with what it meant to be a man in the modern era. Num Pages: 299 pages, 57 halftones. BIC Classification: BGH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 185 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226876092
- ISBN
- 9780226876092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.84
€ 34.99
€ 27.84
Paperback. Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 4KL; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 213 x 298 x 10. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Hodder Education
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471876523
- ISBN
- 9781471876523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.83
€ 14.99
€ 14.83
Paperback. In the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the discovery of unmarked mass graves revealed Europe's worst atrocity since World War II: the genocide in the UN "safe area" of Srebrenica. This title provides an account of the genetic technology developed to identify the eight thousand Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) men and boys found in those graves. Num Pages: 352 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 1 line illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW3; HBWS; JWXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520255753
- ISBN
- 9780520255753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. Tells the story of the 'virtual unwrapping' of an Egyptian mummy and the interdisciplinary project that allowed researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to investigate the person inside by way of an autopsy performed by computer. Num Pages: 84 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 7. Weight in Grams: 145.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252071003
- ISBN
- 9780252071003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.66
€ 18.99
€ 18.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages, 34 black & white illustrations, 4 maps, 34 b&w illus., 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295741734
- ISBN
- 9780295741734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.01
€ 37.99
€ 34.01
Paperback. Full-colour guide to the many places in Wales associated with the Roman Empire Num Pages: 96 pages, 52. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD1; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 6. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445643809
- ISBN
- 9781445643809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.54
€ 28.54
Paperback. Portland Place is the diary of then-BBC Secretary Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, a humorous and charming perspective of life at the BBC and for a woman at the time. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPL; APT; BJ; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472124692
- ISBN
- 9781472124692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
paperback. Recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and mainstream consumerism. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 209 x 11. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520280069
- ISBN
- 9780520280069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.71
€ 25.99
€ 19.71
Paperback. Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism. But despite being the culmination of a range of influential movements, and their own influence, in fact there were only ever two true garden cities in England. This book offers a guide to the movement and to the communities which are its legacy. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 80 pages, 30 b/w; 40 col. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; ACVN; AMVD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 162 x 7. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Shire
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747813422
- ISBN
- 9780747813422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.15
€ 11.99
€ 10.15
Paperback. A narrative of the family odyssey across the America and of their early years in California. It presents the portrait of a remarkable woman. Num Pages: 144 pages, Map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803258563
- ISBN
- 9780803258563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.70
€ 18.99
€ 18.70
paperback. Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea. This title presents Fortune's daring trip. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; KCLT; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099493426
- ISBN
- 9780099493426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.01
€ 14.99
€ 11.01
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- York Medieval Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903153444
- ISBN
- 9781903153444
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.13
€ 134.13
Paperback. The shocking massacre of the Jews in York, 1190, is here re-examined in its historical context along with the circumstances and processes through which Christian and Jewish neighbours became enemies and victims. Num Pages: 376 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HRAM9; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- York Medieval Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903153642
- ISBN
- 9781903153642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.28
€ 42.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; BGHA; HBJH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Stormberg Publishers,South Africa
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780620254069
- ISBN
- 9780620254069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.28
€ 9.28
Hardback. A memoir of Sarah Palin - the first female Republican Vice Presidential candidate. It recounts her political experiences, her time as Mayor of Wasilla and as the first female governor of Alaska, as well as her rapid rise on the national stage during the 2008 campaign. It includes her insights into the personal challenges she's faced. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16-Page Colour Insert. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; HBJK; HBLX; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 40. Weight in Grams: 652. In good to very good condition. A fine reading copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KRS0014083
- ISBN
- 9780061939891
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. Sarah Elliott Novacich explores the ways in which the plots of sacred history were preserved and repurposed in Medieval English literature. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBAH; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; HBTD; HRC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107177055
- ISBN
- 9781107177055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.96
€ 74.96
Paperback. The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's infamous wife. Num Pages: 320 pages, 130. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGR; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445639444
- ISBN
- 9781445639444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.44
€ 25.99
€ 19.44
Hardback. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced 'medication', which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; BTC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260702
- ISBN
- 9780520260702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 46.71
€ 59.15
€ 46.71
Hardcover. Sarah M. Allen explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how written tales of the Tang canon we know today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay in elite society. The book focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417205
- ISBN
- 9780674417205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07
Paperback. Samora Machel led FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front, to victory against Portuguese colonialism in 1974, and the following year became independent Mozambique's first President. This biography presents the many different faces of the man Nelson Mandela called 'a true African revolutionary'. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BGH; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTR; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849041942
- ISBN
- 9781849041942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.56
€ 30.99
€ 27.56
hardcover. Ordinary women helped restart Japan's postwar recovery by selling sex to Allied servicemen, but they were sacrificed as symbols of national shame by a country that has yet to recover full sovereignty. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776912
- ISBN
- 9780804776912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.73
€ 118.73
Paperback. Ordinary women helped restart Japan's postwar recovery by selling sex to Allied servicemen, but they were sacrificed as symbols of national shame by a country that has yet to recover full sovereignty. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804788632
- ISBN
- 9780804788632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; HBLX; JPH; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 166 x 35. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Nation Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781568585369
- ISBN
- 9781568585369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.59
€ 30.99
€ 20.59
Paperback. "An exemplary study of public memory because of its wide vision, its attentiveness to context, and its careful delineation of change over time."-David Waldstreicher, author of In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 429.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221091
- ISBN
- 9780812221091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58