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Hardback. In this book we encounter the real men and combat missions on which Catch 22 was based. Blending fact, fancy, and history with full-blown original illustrations and rare, previously unpublished photos, the work includes twelve men of the Bomb Group relating twelve richly told tales of their own. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrated throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; FZC; HBJK; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508. The Real Men and Missions of Joseph Heller's 340th Bomb Group in World War II. 288 pages, illustrated throughout. In this book we encounter the real men and combat missions on which Catch 22 was based. Blending fact, fancy, and history with full-blown original illustrations and rare, previously unpublished photos, the work includes twelve men of the Bomb Group relating twelve richly told tales of their own. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; FZC; HBJK; HBWQ; JWG. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 21. Weight: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612001036
ISBN
9781612001036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.00
€ 30.35

Paperback. .
Publisher
Monash University Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781921867842
ISBN
9781921867842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: BGXA; HBJD; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 33. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Strategic Media Books United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939521064
ISBN
9781939521064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.90

Paperback. Articles, photographs, slides, manuscripts, diaries, and letters; an unparalleled collection of cultural and ethnographic value. Series: Bruce Peel Special Collections Library. Num Pages: 80 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 191 x 10. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551953151
ISBN
9781551953151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.01

Hardback. Finally, Grieve focuses on the misogynistic elements of the story and asks why the fall of Spain is figured as a cautionary tale about a woman's sexuality. Num Pages: 328 pages, 24, 23 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; JFHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890369
ISBN
9780801890369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.14
€ 61.03

paperback. Patricia E. Roy continues her study into why British Columbians were historically so opposed to Asian immigration. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16ill. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774810111
ISBN
9780774810111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Paperback. This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 b/w photos, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBC; GTB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774813815
ISBN
9780774813815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, maps, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1FP; HBJF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 206 x 14. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
Cengage Learning, Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781133606512
ISBN
9781133606512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 107.60

Paperback. Organized around the categories of materiality, women, and transgression during renaissance, this book promotes and challenges readers' thinking of the everyday. It foregrounds the common person, the marginal, and the domestic even as it presents the unusual details of their existence. Editor(s): Fumerton, Patricia; Hunt, Simon. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, 52 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB; JFC; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 582.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
374
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
First Edition (US) First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216639
ISBN
9780812216639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. Poor migrants made up a growing class of workers in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. This book is an ambitious attempt to reconstruct the everyday lives of these dispossessed people. It offers a portrait of unsettledness in early modern England that includes the homeless and housed alike. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables, 34halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226269566
ISBN
9780226269566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.85

Hardcover. . Clean copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Edition
First Edition
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0236602
ISBN
9780151011698
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. t
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Edition
First Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KST0001958
ISBN
9780151011698
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Kurt Frank Korf's story is one of the most unusual to come out of World War II. Drawing on his correspondence and on oral histories and interviews with Korf, the author paints a portrait of a man forced to flee Nazi Germany because the Nuremburg Laws had relegated him to the status of "second-degree mixed breed" as Korf had one Jewish grandparent. Series: World War II: The Global, Human and Ethical Dimension. Num Pages: 272 pages, 21 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 171 x 24. Weight in Grams: 607.
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823225286
ISBN
9780823225286
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.34

Paperback. This is, for the first time in its entirety, the story of the arrest and trial of Clay Shaw, charged with conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Num Pages: 52 pages, 25. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 28. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
52
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871319203
ISBN
9780871319203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.41

Hardcover. Presents a collection of essays that brings together scholarship on the subject of memory and identity in the France-Algeria colonial and postcolonial relationship. This book explores topics from history and photography to culture and religion. It includes such topics as migration, displacement, settler colonialism, racism, sexuality, and more. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 312 pages, note, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 853.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630746
ISBN
9780815630746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.59

Paperback. Comparative study of the writings and strategies of European women in two colonies, French Algeria and British Kenya, during the twentieth century. Its central theme is women's discursive contribution to the construction of colonial nostalgia. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DS; HBJD; HBJH; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341672
ISBN
9781349341672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Hardback. Offers a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Mediterranean. These essays provide a critical study of space and movement through new approaches to rethinking the maps, migrations, and margins of the sea in the French imperial and transnational context. Editor(s): Lorcin, Patricia M. E.; Shepard, Todd D. Series: France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series. Num Pages: 444 pages, 13 illustrations, 10 tables, 4 charts. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HB; 1QSM; HBJH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 798.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803249936
ISBN
9780803249936
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.45

Paperback. Explores the relation between the pre-colonial and colonial past to the postcolonial present in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; HBAH; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329664
ISBN
9780822329664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. A narrative of the changing experiences of ordinary people during war, and thoughts on the aftermath of war and whether 'peace' really meant peace, for everyone. Num Pages: 320 pages, 8pp b & w pics. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BGA; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Profile Books
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846680748
ISBN
9781846680748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White Num Pages: 400 pages, 28 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 207 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company New York
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780393304978
ISBN
9780393304978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.50

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 346 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 799.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691642147
ISBN
9780691642147
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.18

Paperback. Editor(s): Eltona, Patricia R. Num Pages: 151 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
151
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606928349
ISBN
9781606928349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.22
€ 41.75

Paperback. Although clouded in some debate, the first Jewish immigrants came to England with the Normans in c.1066 and by 1189 had established 24 provincial Jewries in places such as Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Lincoln, Exeter and Gloucester. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288. Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives. 175 pages, 2, 2 line drawing. Editor(s): Skinner, Patricia. Although clouded in some debate, the first Jewish immigrants came to England with the Normans in c.1066 and by 1189 had established 24 provincial Jewries in places such as Norwich, Oxford, Cambridge, Coventry, Lincoln, Exeter and Gloucester. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSR1. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 12. Weight: 332.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
186
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843837336
ISBN
9781843837336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.62

Hardback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349950737
ISBN
9781349950737
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.53

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