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Paperback. Andre Hue was a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German supply lines. Returning to Britain, he was recruited by SOE to parachute behind enemy lines on 5 June 1944, to unite resistance forces in Brittany and paralyze local German troops during the Allied invasion. Series: Penguin World War II Collection. Num Pages: 368 pages, B&W. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141042800
ISBN
9780141042800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.66

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 24 black white integrated. BIC Classification: 1FBXK; HBJF1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 166 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780764337
ISBN
9781780764337
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.56
€ 64.10

Paperback. Presents results of Danish field research archaeology in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean and research in this area by Danish as well as international scholars. Editor(s): Dietz, Soren; Isager, Signe. Series: Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens. Num Pages: 411 pages, b/w photos & tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 275 x 210 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1616.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
411
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772887227
ISBN
9788772887227
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.51

Paperback. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of racialization in early America. Focusing on cultural cross-dressing from a wide range of sources, Sophie White shows that material culture-especially dress-was central to discourses about race, as colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 33 color, 17 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812223088
ISBN
9780812223088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.55

Paperback. Introduces the homes that people fell in love with in the 1930s, and the fixtures and fittings that went in them. This book features illustrations and informative chapters on architectural styles, gardens, furnishings and technology in the home. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; AMX; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 149 x 6. Weight in Grams: 130. New.
Publisher
Shire Publications
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
9780747807117
ISBN
9780747807117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.89

Hardback. Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? This book explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691139845
ISBN
9780691139845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.78

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750970037
ISBN
9780750970037
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.33

Hardback. Syrian-Saudi relations have been a paradox in inter-Arab politics during the oil era. This work explores the logic behind the paradoxical longevity of this cooperative relationship and argues that what ultimately makes Saudis and Syrians so indispensable to each other is the historical appeal of 'shared identities', be they Arabism or Islam. Series: Library of International Relations. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845113025
ISBN
9781845113025
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.89
€ 134.38

Hardcover. Presents forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of Georgia. Nearly three hundred stunning colour photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries. Num Pages: 432 pages, 286 colour and 18 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; AMN; HBJK; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 254 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820349350
ISBN
9780820349350
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.51

Paperback. A remarkable, controversial book about Germany's soldiers in the Second World War drawn from transcriptions of their secretly recorded conversations Num Pages: 448 pages, Integrated b-w. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849839495
ISBN
9781849839495
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.57

Hardback. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801453601
ISBN
9780801453601
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.48

Paperback. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801479632
ISBN
9780801479632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 37.99

Hardback. Sonia Ryang casts new light on the study of North Korean culture and society by reading literary texts as sources of ethnographic data. Ryang focuses critical attention on three central themes--love, war, and self--that reflect the nearly complete overlap of the personal, social, and political realms in North Korean society. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 244 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 233 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674062474
ISBN
9780674062474
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.77

Hardcover. Why do some Arab Spring uprisings led to reforms and others to revolutions? This study looks at the relative success of the move to democracy in these four Middle Eastern countries, comparing the secular leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, and their desire for revolution, with the monarchs of Morocco and Jordan, and their priority of reform. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748692712
ISBN
9780748692712
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.84
€ 101.60

Hardcover. The aborted coup in Turkey has fired up interest in a country which will play a critical geopolitical role in the wars of the Middle East. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JMG; BGH; HBJF1; JFSR2; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 25. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784538262
ISBN
9781784538262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 36.91

Hardback. Num Pages: 250 pages, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB; HRLM7; JFMX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253021243
ISBN
9780253021243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.17

Paperback. A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of grief -- of learning to live with grief -- that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSN; 3JMC; BG; HBJF; HBLX; RNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089079
ISBN
9781844089079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. Translator(s): Bouis, Antonina W. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781400077861
ISBN
9781400077861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.78

Paperback. Twelve Years a Slave, soon to be a huge new Hollywood film, is the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, enduring unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue twelve years later. A powerful and riveting condemnation of American slavery. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JH; BM; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hesperus Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843914716
ISBN
9781843914716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.07

Hardcover. The story that inspired the major motion picture, Twelve Years a Slaveis a harrowing, vividly detailed, and utterly unforgettable account of slavery Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 213 x 27. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Edition
0037-
Condition
New
SKU
V9781476767345
ISBN
9781476767345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.56

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