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Paperback. Historians have long been perplexed by the complete disappearance of the medieval Chinese aristocracy by the tenth century the great clans that had dominated China for centuries. Nicolas Tackett resolves the enigma of their disappearance using new, digital methodologies to analyze a dazzling array of sources." Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, 25 line illustrations, 16 maps, 17 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 231 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674970656
ISBN
9780674970656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.37

Hardcover. Using the new tools of GIS and social network analysis, Nicolas Tackett shows that the great Tang aristocratic families were more successful than previously believed in adapting to social and economic changes in the seventh and eighth centuries. Tang political influence waned only after many of them were killed during the three decades after 880. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 310 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: HBJF; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674492059
ISBN
9780674492059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.36

Hardback. During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. This work weaves this episode into a broader story about the Soviet frenzy in the 1930s to purge society of all those deemed to be unfit. Translator(s): Rendall, Steven. Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130835
ISBN
9780691130835
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.86

Paperback. Analyses and compares what it means to be Hakka. Series: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China. Num Pages: 294 pages, Maps, tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; GTB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295984872
ISBN
9780295984872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.59

Paperback. Translator(s): Legnani, Nicole Delia. Series: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 174 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies United States
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674019737
ISBN
9780674019737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.21

Paperback. In this cultural history of the War of 1812, Nicole Eustace examines the way this expensive, unproductive war won popular support through appeal to the emotions. 1812 looks at the major dramatic events of the war and the subsequent songs, speeches, and images that spoke of opportunity and romantic adventure. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 19 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTR; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780812223484
ISBN
9780812223484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.80

Paperback. Translator(s): Pache, Corinne. Series: Myth and Poetics. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JFC; JFSJ1; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801482427
ISBN
9780801482427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 39.99

Paperback. According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. This title explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity. Translator(s): Levine, Caroline. Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 line drawings, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691037622
ISBN
9780691037622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 49.96

Paperback. An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens. Translator(s): Pache, Corinne; Fort, Jeff. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 27. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Zone Books
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951092
ISBN
9781890951092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.98

Paperback. A revised edition of a groundbreaking work tracing the rhetoric, politics, and ideology of funeral orations in ancient Greece, arguing that they served to celebrate the city of Athens and the Athenian citizen. Translator(s): Sheridan, Alan. Num Pages: 539 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
539
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951597
ISBN
9781890951597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.97

Hardback. An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens. Translator(s): Pache, Corinne; Fort, Jeff. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 230 x 38. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951085
ISBN
9781890951085
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.87

Paperback. Unspeakable Violence argues that racialized and gendered violence in the U.S. Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicano/a nationalisms. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 563.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350750
ISBN
9780822350750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.38

Hardback. Unspeakable Violence argues that racialized and gendered violence in the U.S. Mexico borderlands from the mid-nineteenth century through the early twentieth was fundamental to U.S., Mexican, and Chicano/a nationalisms. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350576
ISBN
9780822350576
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.30

Hardback. A masterful portrait of Nez Perce efforts to control their own future Num Pages: 440 pages, 63 illustrations, 10 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 798.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803271371
ISBN
9780803271371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.56

Paperback. The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero. Num Pages: 416 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349117201
ISBN
9780349117201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.20

Hardcover. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 173 x 27. Weight in Grams: 842.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772897202
ISBN
9788772897202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.02
€ 51.90

paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691603988
ISBN
9780691603988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 38.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772898094
ISBN
9788772898094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 33.77

paperback. Famine moves a Greenlandic family into a new settlement in the 1850's where the joys and tragedies of pre-Christian times are depicted Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1MTNG; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 188 x 104 x 15. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780996193832
ISBN
9780996193832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.54

Paperback. This book is designed to move students quickly to the exciting thematic subjects at the centre of current debate on the Revolution and the Counter Revolution. Series: European History in Perspective. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Edition Unstated
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333611760
ISBN
9780333611760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.67

Paperback. The three Punic Wars lasted nearly 100 years, from 264BC to 146BC. They represented a struggle in the Mediterranean between the bludgeoning land power of Rome, bent on imperial conquest, and the great maritime power of Carthage. This is a comprehensive account of a complicated historical period. Series: Essential Histories. Num Pages: 96 pages, 40 colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841763552
ISBN
9781841763552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.42

Paperback. Offers an introduction to the life of a social anthropologist. Num Pages: 192 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1HFJA; HBJH; JHMC; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250. Notes from a Mud Hut. 192 pages, map. Offers an introduction to the life of a social anthropologist. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1HFJA; HBJH; JHMC; WTLC. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight: 252.
Publisher
Eland
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906011505
ISBN
9781906011505
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FM; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Monsoon Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Updated
Condition
New
SKU
V9789814423465
ISBN
9789814423465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.79

Hardback. With an introduction by Sir Alan Munro. A revealing personal memoir of the Middle East, but much more - it sheds light, through dramatic and authentic personal experience, on how Britain pursued its interests in the enduring struggles of the Middle East first via highly trained and committed military officers. Num Pages: 224 pages, 27 bw integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; BM; HBJF1; HBLW; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780760827
ISBN
9781780760827
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.80
€ 53.95

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