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paperback. Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. Num Pages: 848 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 154 x 54. Weight in Grams: 1072.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099422587
ISBN
9780099422587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 26.83

Paperback. From Roman times to the 21st century, Londoners and visitors to the city have recounted the extraordinary events, everyday life and character of this city - from politics, culture, sport, religion, and reportage. This book brings to life the human trial of the capital including invasions by the Vikings, and the brutal execution of Sir Thomas More. Num Pages: 576 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 37. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Constable and Robinson United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845299422
ISBN
9781845299422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.31

Paperback. Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and Spark. It is a celebration of the city and also an elegy for its decline, with statistics and anecdote, from Boadicea to Betjeman. Num Pages: 560 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140105933
ISBN
9780140105933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

Hardback. This volume captures the late Reva Howitt Clar's memoirs of her colourful career with the legendary brother and sister producing team of Fanchon and Marco. It chronicles the weekly shows, rehearsals, costumes, publicity stunts and backstage intrigues that typified any vaudeville performer. Editor(s): Melnick, Mimi Clar. Series: Studies & Documentation in the History of Popular Entertainment. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 b&w photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; ASZH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810841864
ISBN
9780810841864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.48

Paperback. These speeches exemplify how this remarkable woman affected Alberta's history and social policy. Editor(s): Lisac, Mark. Series: University of Alberta Centennial Series. Num Pages: 440 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; 3JJ; DNF; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
389
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888644886
ISBN
9780888644886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.39

hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBTB; HBW; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691644967
ISBN
9780691644967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.68

Hardback. Luther Lee was one of the founders of Wesleyan Methodism, a 19th-century reformer and an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. This volume explores his life, politics and theology. One of the author's particular foci is the extent to which Lee impacted the antislavery movement. Series: Studies in Evangelicalism. Num Pages: 296 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBWJ; HRCC2; HRCC95. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810837102
ISBN
9780810837102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.25

Follow the history of logging as it unfolds across the United States, from the virgin forests of the east, to the towering redwoods of the West Coast. Historic photography, much of it beautifully hand tinted, captures images of the early woods, the woodsman, and the machines of this important industry. Num Pages: 144 pages, 278 color, 63 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; KNAL; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 276 x 12. Weight in Grams: 728.
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764326196
ISBN
9780764326196
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.26

Paperback. Num Pages: chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; JNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 216 x 5. Weight in Grams: 159.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875655031
ISBN
9780875655031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.68

Paperback. The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. This book-length study of this period, traces its history amid a series of overlapping discourses surrounding collectivism, urban renewal, experimentalist aesthetics, underground archives, and the radical politics of self-determination. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 music ex; 21 HTs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPL; AVGJ; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285415
ISBN
9780520285415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.02

Hardback. The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alternative venues in the abandoned factories and warehouses of Lower Manhattan. This is a study of this period. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 music ex; 21 HTs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPL; AVGJ; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285408
ISBN
9780520285408
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.56
€ 72.02

Paperback. Describes and explains the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in the first major ghetto imposed by the Germans. This book reconstructs the organization of the ghetto and discusses its provisioning, forced labor, diseases and mortality, crime and deportations, living conditions, political, social, and cultural life and resistance. Translator(s): Shapiro, Robert Moses. Num Pages: 560 pages, 41 b&w photos, 13 figures, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DVP; GTB; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1112.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253219930
ISBN
9780253219930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.78

Hardback. Num Pages: 832 pages, 14 photographs, 11maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 236 x 31. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774831086
ISBN
9780774831086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.22

Paperback. A collection of 17 essays first printed in "American Quarterly", the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the Association's 50th anniversary, the editor has brought together works which provide a window into the history and evolution of the practice of American studies. Editor(s): Maddox, Lucy. Num Pages: 458 pages, 4, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; DNF; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 668.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
458
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801860560
ISBN
9780801860560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.77

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 434 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; JPF; JPSD; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646862
ISBN
9780691646862
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 217.31

Hardcover. The author argues that by fostering awareness of membership in an elite group, the native place lodges generated a sense of belonging to a nation that furthered the reforms undertaken in the early twentieth century. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 326 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 180 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780674019560
ISBN
9780674019560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 42.39

Paperback. These essays do not assume the primacy of national allegiance. Instead, by using the 'sense of place' as a prism to look at German identity in new ways, they examine a sense of 'Germanness' that was neither self-evident nor unchanging. Editor(s): Blackbourn, David; Retallack, James N. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442628656
ISBN
9781442628656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.78

Paperback. This book focuses on certain local powers in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (ca. 2000 - 1595 B.C.), namely the chief of the city (rabianum), the elders, the "city," and the assembly. This is a novel approach to Old Babylonian history that allows us to understand the constituency, activities, and sphere of influence of local institutions of authority. Series: Studies in Egyptology & the Ancient Near East. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9781908049001
ISBN
9781908049001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.30

Hardback. From 1933-45, Nazi Germany undertook massive industrial integration, submitting an entire economic sector to direct state oversight. This innovative study explores how German professionals navigated this complex landscape through the divergent careers of business managers in two of the era's most important trade organizations. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785330650
ISBN
9781785330650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.69

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691149165
ISBN
9780691149165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.75
€ 42.52

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