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Paperback. In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. This book presents a picture of daily life - marriage and the home, work and play, grooming and religion - viewed from a female perspective. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16pp line drawings, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDA; HBJH; HBLA; HDD; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140175967
- ISBN
- 9780140175967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.69
€ 20.99
€ 18.69
Paperback. Everyone has heard of Ramesses the Great - but what is the truth behind the legend? This book explores the life and times of Egypt's greatest king. Ramesses II was the archetypal Egyptian pharoah: a mighty warrior, an extravagant builder and the father of scores of children. His monuments and image were to be found in every corner of the empire. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16pp b&w line drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDAE; BGH; HBJF; HBJH; HBLA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140280975
- ISBN
- 9780140280975
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.91
€ 20.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. Series: Africa@War. Num Pages: 72 pages, 73 b/w ills, 27 colour ills. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1H; HBJH; HBWS; JWH; JWTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 298 x 7. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Helion & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911512486
- ISBN
- 9781911512486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.32
€ 26.99
€ 20.32
Hardcover. During World War II, Portugal played its cards uncommonly well as a neutral and subsequently became a member of NATO. This membership resulted in a modernizing of its navy and its integration into the Atlantic Alliance. Num Pages: 280 pages, 33 photos, 24 maps, 21 tables maps. BIC Classification: HBJH; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Publisher
- Helion and Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909982574
- ISBN
- 9781909982574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.02€ 63.32
€ 83.02
€ 63.32
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Helion and Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909982062
- ISBN
- 9781909982062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.92
€ 40.99
€ 28.92
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Helion & Company United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908916563
- ISBN
- 9781908916563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.86
€ 40.99
€ 28.86
Paperback. INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS BEST REGIONAL NONFICTION OF THE SOUTH GOLD MEDAL Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 b/w photos. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLX; LNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Pelican Publishing Co United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455621309
- ISBN
- 9781455621309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.61
€ 17.61
Paperback. This book investigates the relationship between the law and religious ideology in Luther's Germany. Num Pages: 360 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLH; HRCC9; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780521012997
- ISBN
- 9780521012997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.94
€ 69.94
Paperback. This updated edition traces Spain's history from prehistoric times to the present, focusing particularly on culture, society, politics, and personalities. Series: Cambridge Concise Histories. Num Pages: 456 pages, 37 b/w illus. 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781107525054
- ISBN
- 9781107525054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.90
€ 31.99
€ 25.90
Paperback. Discusses the fluctuations of black suffrage in the ante-bellum North, using the 4 states of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island as examples. This book offers a framework for understanding and explaining how the issue of voting rights for blacks unfolded between the drafting of the Constitution, and the end of the Civil War. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415956970
- ISBN
- 9780415956970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 28.24
€ 46.99
€ 28.24
Hardback. Students of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; JFFJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 230 x 31. Weight in Grams: 696.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421414799
- ISBN
- 9781421414799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.03€ 47.68
€ 51.03
€ 47.68
Hardcover. In a remote Himalayan village in 1721, the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri wrote a treatise in classical Tibetan intended to refute key Buddhist doctrines and dispel the darkness of idolatry from Tibet. Dispelling the Darkness provides extended excerpts from this unfinished masterpiece and a full translation of a companion work. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 23 x 15. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674659704
- ISBN
- 9780674659704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.39
€ 47.99
€ 40.39
Paperback. They advocated economic independence from whites and founded insurance companies that became some of the largest black-owned corporations. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL3; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421418391
- ISBN
- 9781421418391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.27
€ 35.27
Paperback. A collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late Frederic E Wakeman, Jr. It offers narratives of critical historical events as well as analyses of China's place in world history. Editor(s): Wakeman, Lea H. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520256064
- ISBN
- 9780520256064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. This book is the first detailed and comprehensive account of the Kharkov counteroffensive, the operations of the SS divisions and the supporting actions of Armeeabteilung Fretter-Pico and 1. Panzerarmee, and is supported by over 210 photographs and maps. Num Pages: 300 pages, 210+ b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 288 x 224 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2082.
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764311864
- ISBN
- 9780764311864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.26€ 49.59
€ 65.26
€ 49.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 856 pages, 5 b/w photos & 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JFHC; JPA; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1152.
- Publisher
- Trine Day
- Number of pages
- 856
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936296088
- ISBN
- 9781936296088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.04
€ 33.04
Paperback. Editor(s): Bryan, Jr. Jimmy L. Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW; JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781623490218
- ISBN
- 9781623490218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Paperback. Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, this book displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. It is written for the general public curious about China and for the student beginning to study its rich cultural heritage. Num Pages: 440 pages, 12 line illus. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 233 x 27. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155876
- ISBN
- 9780691155876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Offers a fresh approach to a freedom that is often taken for granted in the United States, yet is one of the strongest and proudest elements of American culture: religious freedom. This book asserts that freedom of religion, as James Madison conceived it, is an American invention previously unknown to any nation on earth. Num Pages: 436 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HRCV2; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520224919
- ISBN
- 9780520224919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Paperback. Zamumo's Gifts traces the evolution of Indian-European exchange, from gift giving as a diplomatic tool to the trade of commodities that bound colonists and Natives in commercial relations. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 3J; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812222234
- ISBN
- 9780812222234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90