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Regional & national history
paperback. Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Num Pages: 112 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; AKLC; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 196 x 10. Weight in Grams: 384. From the library of Michel Déon. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0021789
- ISBN
- 9780224073820
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.02
€ 7.02
The Great Migration in Historical Perspective. New Dimensions of Race,...
Joe William . Ed(S): Trotter
paperback. Editor(s): Trotter, Joe William. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 176 pages, 17tabs. BIC Classification: HBJQ; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 16. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253206695
- ISBN
- 9780253206695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.66
€ 21.66
Paperback. Told through a case study of Tsinghua University - China's premier school of technology - this book traces how Red engineers were groomed in the early years of socialism, survived the Cultural Revolution, and triumphed in the post-Mao years by uniting with communist officials. Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific. Num Pages: 368 pages, 11 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; JFC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804760782
- ISBN
- 9780804760782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.59
€ 33.99
€ 33.59
Hardback. Rise of the Red Engineers explains the tumultuous origins of the class of technocratic officials who rule China today. Series: Contemporary Issues in Asia and Pacific. Num Pages: 368 pages, 11 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBTB; JFC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804760775
- ISBN
- 9780804760775
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.98
€ 137.98
Paperback. Examines the dramatic political changes in Palestine and Israel from the Oslo Accords through the second intifada and the death of Yasser Arafat. This work addresses the political economy of the Oslo process, social and political changes in Palestine and Israel, United States foreign policy, and others. Editor(s): Beinin, Joel; Stein, Rebecca L. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4 tables, 10 ilustrations, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 268 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804753654
- ISBN
- 9780804753654
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 35.59
€ 37.99
€ 35.59
hardcover. This history examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. Central to the study is the question of how people handle multiple identities and loyalties that are dislocated and reformed by turbulent political and cultural processes. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 318 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; HRJ; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520211759
- ISBN
- 9780520211759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64€ 48.70
€ 62.64
€ 48.70
Hardback. This book examines political, social, and cultural changes in Palestine and Israel from the 1993 Oslo Accords through the second Palestinian uprising and the death of Yasser Arafat. It also explains the failures of the Oslo process and considers the prospects for a just and lasting peace in the region. Editor(s): Beinin, Joel; Stein, Rebecca L. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4 tables, 10 ilustrations, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804753647
- ISBN
- 9780804753647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 147.96
€ 147.96
Paperback. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist returns to Cambodia thirty years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge to report on the country's struggle to recover from its past Num Pages: 416 pages, 8-pp. B/W photo insert on text. BIC Classification: 1FMC; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX; HBTB; JPZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Second
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781610391832
- ISBN
- 9781610391832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.21
€ 19.99
€ 17.21
Hardcover. Num Pages: 97 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 97
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781608769742
- ISBN
- 9781608769742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.54€ 39.46
€ 55.54
€ 39.46
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226152653
- ISBN
- 9780226152653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.01
€ 40.99
€ 31.01
paperback. Frantz Schmidt is an executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. Following in his father's footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner's trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running the large medical practice that he had always viewed as his true vocation. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099572664
- ISBN
- 9780099572664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
€ 17.99
€ 13.29
Paperback. The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted children were a very real problem. This title recreates sixteenth-century Nuremberg to explore what befell abandoned children in this period in vivid detail. Num Pages: 456 pages, 64 halftones, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JFSP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226102054
- ISBN
- 9780226102054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.14
€ 37.99
€ 29.14
Paperback. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774167782
- ISBN
- 9789774167782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.83
€ 26.83
Paperback. The untold story of one of Bletchley Park's less-celebrated geniuses. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 pages of plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473885257
- ISBN
- 9781473885257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.76
€ 23.99
€ 21.76
Paperback. Chicago's landscape inspired musings from residents and visitors alike. This title contains these musings from the land to present a green portrait of Chicago. It concludes with biographical essays. Num Pages: 424 pages, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBJK; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226306612
- ISBN
- 9780226306612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.62
€ 32.99
€ 25.62
Hardback. A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents presents a series of original essays exploring our historical understanding of the role and legacy of the eight U.S. presidents who served in the significant period between 1837 and the start of the Civil War in 1861. Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 174 x 27. Weight in Grams: 934.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444339123
- ISBN
- 9781444339123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 227.78
€ 227.78
Hardback. This is a detailed analysis and description of a unique era in American political history, one in which political parties were the dominant dynamic force at work structuring and directing the political world. Series: Stanford Studies in the New Political History. Num Pages: 360 pages, Illustrations, facsims.,ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718783
- ISBN
- 9780804718783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.74
€ 158.74
Hardcover. The presidential campaign of 1848 saw the first strong electoral challenge to the expansion of slavery in the US; most historians consider the appearance of Free Soil Party in that election a major turning point of the 19th century. This title deals with the 1848 election, and clarifies our understanding of a pivotal moment in American history. Series: American Presidential Elections. Num Pages: 224 pages, 14 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPHF; JPVL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Univ Pr of Kansas
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700616404
- ISBN
- 9780700616404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.45
€ 66.45
Paperback. In Storm Over Texas Joel Silbey explores the shaping and development of one event in American history - the Texas annexation controversy - and how it came to be a truly pivotal moment, explaining why the debate over annexation of Texas in the 1840s followed a course that led, ultimately, to civil war. Series: Pivotal Moments in American History. Num Pages: 256 pages, numerous halftones. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195315929
- ISBN
- 9780195315929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.00
€ 33.00
Hardback. Editor(s): Silbey, Joel H.; Bogue, Allan G. Series: Quantitative studies in History Series. Num Pages: 402 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPHF; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635330
- ISBN
- 9780691635330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.56€ 128.45
€ 172.56
€ 128.45