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Hardcover. Revealing an Italian Renaissance beyond Michelangelo and the Medici, Sarah Gwyneth Ross recovers the experiences of everyday people who were inspired to pursue humanistic learning. Physicians were often the most avid professionals seeking to earn the respect of their betters, advance their families, and secure honorable remembrance after death. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674659834
- ISBN
- 9780674659834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.44€ 51.39
€ 56.44
€ 51.39
Paperback. American historians will find this study both enlightening and surprising. Series: Early America: History, Context, Culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ; KNDF; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421409634
- ISBN
- 9781421409634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.31
€ 33.99
€ 28.31
Paperback. Very good copy with minor shelfwear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint number: 8
- Publisher
- Mercier Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- SKU
- KEX0268163
- ISBN
- 9781856352741
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The definitive account of an absorbing double mystery: the fates of the missing female SOE agents and the truth about the woman who searched for them Num Pages: 496 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; HBJD; HBWQ; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 33. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349119366
- ISBN
- 9780349119366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.20
€ 17.99
€ 13.20
Paperback. The compelling story of the only concentration camp for women by the acclaimed author of A Life in Secrets. Num Pages: 848 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349120034
- ISBN
- 9780349120034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.00
€ 19.99
€ 14.00
Hardback. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; AJB; AJC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 318 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1116.
- Publisher
- Museum of Modern Art
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781633450172
- ISBN
- 9781633450172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 38.32
€ 46.99
€ 38.32
Hardcover. As one of South Asia's oldest democracies Sri Lanka is a critical case to examine the limits of a liberal peace, peacebuilding and external engagement in the settlement of civil wars. Based on nine years of research, and more than 100 interviews with those affected by the war, NGOs, and local and international elites engaged in the peace process. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKS; GTJ; HBJF; JPS; JWLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230240278
- ISBN
- 9780230240278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Paperback. This is an anthology of Another Tack columns which originally saw light in recent years on the weekend pages of the Jerusalem Post, where they have been a regular weekly feature since 1999. These columns have gained an extraordinarily popular following, with many readers turning to Another Tack before perusing the rest of the paper. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBJF1; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Gefen Publishing House Israel
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652296078
- ISBN
- 9789652296078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.48
€ 27.99
€ 19.48
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Scholars Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555404277
- ISBN
- 9781555404277
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.37
€ 25.37
Paperback. Compelling account of a legendary Palestinian resistance fighter. From refugee camp to international infamy. Series: Revolutionary Lives. Num Pages: 168 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJP; 3JM; BGH; HBJF1; HBLW3; JPWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745329512
- ISBN
- 9780745329512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.00€ 16.45
€ 20.00
€ 16.45
Hardback. Not Fit to Stay reveals how officials used panic about public health concerns as a basis for excluding early twentieth-century South Asian immigrants from entering Canada and the United States. Num Pages: 584 pages, 8 images, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 3JJ; HBJK; JFFN; JFSL1; MBNH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 584
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774832182
- ISBN
- 9780774832182
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.17
€ 113.17
Paperback. "An exemplary study of public memory because of its wide vision, its attentiveness to context, and its careful delineation of change over time."-David Waldstreicher, author of In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 429.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221091
- ISBN
- 9780812221091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.23
€ 32.99
€ 31.23
Hardcover. An Archaeology of Plantation Life in Nineteenth Century Zanzibar Num Pages: 269 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGT; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 244 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441984708
- ISBN
- 9781441984708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.18
€ 63.18
Hardcover. This book examines conservative intellectuals' response to Richard Nixon the politician, the president, and the policymaker. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; JPFM; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619944
- ISBN
- 9780230619944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349382538
- ISBN
- 9781349382538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.81
€ 61.81
Paperback. Ordinary women helped restart Japan's postwar recovery by selling sex to Allied servicemen, but they were sacrificed as symbols of national shame by a country that has yet to recover full sovereignty. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804788632
- ISBN
- 9780804788632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.27
€ 29.99
€ 29.27
hardcover. Ordinary women helped restart Japan's postwar recovery by selling sex to Allied servicemen, but they were sacrificed as symbols of national shame by a country that has yet to recover full sovereignty. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776912
- ISBN
- 9780804776912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.75
€ 116.75
Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives an...
Sarah L. Wilkerson Freeman
Hardcover. Including suffragists, civil rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers fresh perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and their times. Editor(s): Freeman, Sarah L. Wilkerson; Bond, Beverly Greene. Num Pages: 456 pages, 17 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBSN; BGH; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- Volume 1 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329482
- ISBN
- 9780820329482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.75
€ 152.75
Paperback. Samora Machel led FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front, to victory against Portuguese colonialism in 1974, and the following year became independent Mozambique's first President. This biography presents the many different faces of the man Nelson Mandela called 'a true African revolutionary'. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BGH; HBJH; HBLW3; HBTR; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849041942
- ISBN
- 9781849041942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.23
€ 29.99
€ 27.23
Hardback. This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719078835
- ISBN
- 9780719078835
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.20
€ 148.20
Paperback. This book is an edition, translation, and philosophical commentary on Hildegard of Bingen's "Unknown Language," a list of the things of her twelfth-century world recast in words of her own creation. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 246 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSBB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349537341
- ISBN
- 9781349537341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 180.86
€ 180.86
Hardcover. Sarah M. Allen explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how written tales of the Tang canon we know today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay in elite society. The book focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674417205
- ISBN
- 9780674417205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.43
€ 44.99
€ 37.43
Hardback. On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Noziere gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced 'medication', which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely survived. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; BTC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260702
- ISBN
- 9780520260702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.86€ 46.06
€ 58.86
€ 46.06
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 412 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641508
- ISBN
- 9780691641508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.58
€ 205.58