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Hardcover. The so-called Seven Weeks' War of 1866 between Prussia and Italy and Austria was notable not only for its effect on future German history but also because it was the last time the armies of the smaller German states fought as independent contingents. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBW; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Helion & Company United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909384026
ISBN
9781909384026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.09
€ 45.82

Paperback. Looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, "terror labor," and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, this book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Translator(s): Templer, William. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554. The Concentration Camp. 370 pages, black & white illustrations. Looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, "terror labor," and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, this book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight: 530. Translator(s): Templer, William.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
370
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691006857
ISBN
9780691006857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Hardback. Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America's court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; HBJK; JPA; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674073081
ISBN
9780674073081
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.27

Paperback. Six rollercoaster weeks that brought down America's top general by the ROLLING STONE journalist who broke the story. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1KBB; 3JM; HBJF; HBJK; HBLX; HBWS4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753829387
ISBN
9780753829387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.81

Paperback. Consists of articles primarily focused on Home Rule, offering both historical and contemporary analyses. This book presents a collection that includes articles focused on Unionism, particularly on Ulster Unionism. It provides an insight into nationalist ideas about the fragility of the unionist bloc and the unreasonableness of their cause. Series: Classics of Irish History. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 186 x 121 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University College Dublin Press
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904558767
ISBN
9781904558767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.56

Paperback. An innovative approach to early Chinese history, now updated and expanded up to 1800. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Edition
Second Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393938777
ISBN
9780393938777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 47.60

Paperback. Wajorese migrants exhibited remarkable versatility in adapting to local conditions in the areas where they settled. They perpetuated their own culture overseas while simultaneously using various assimilation strategies such as intermarriage to thrive in their adopted homelands. The author reconstructs the story of the Wajorese diaspora. Num Pages: 220 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; HBJF; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Not Avail
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875807126
ISBN
9780875807126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

Paperback. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401319
ISBN
9781474401319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.98

Paperback. Beate Sirota Gordon was born in Vienna, but in 1929 her family moved to Japan so that her father, a noted pianist, could teach, and she grew up speaking German, English, and Japanese. In 1946, at age twenty-two, she helped to draft the new postwar Japanese constitution. This title chronicles the unlikely string of events that led her to that role. Num Pages: 176 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; BM; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 10. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226132518
ISBN
9780226132518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.29

Paperback. Provides an account of life of the author's first tour of duty in Vietnam - the blood, fear, camaraderie, and tedium of combat and maneuver. First published in 1987, this book shows an eager young recruit growing before the reader's eyes into a proud but bloodied combat veteran. Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPK; BGHA; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585446049
ISBN
9781585446049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.57

Paperback. "The Only Thing Worth Dying For" is not only brilliant, it's the one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan.--former Congressman Charlie Wilson. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 3JMC; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 204 x 27. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061661235
ISBN
9780061661235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Late on the evening of 24 January 1991 the patrol was compromised deep behind enemy lines in Iraq. A fierce fire-fight left the eight men unscathed, but they were forced to run for their lives. This title tells the story of courage under fire, of hairbreadth escapes, of the trained soldiers in the world fighting against adverse conditions. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JJPR; BTM; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBWS3; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099556671
ISBN
9780099556671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

paperback. Offers a look at the delectable secrets of Mesopotamia. The author's broad perspective takes us inside the religious rites, everyday rituals, attitudes and taboos, and even the detailed preparation techniques involving food and drink in Mesopotamian high culture during the second and third millenniums BCE, as the Mesopotamians recorded them. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Num Pages: 152 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBJF1; HBLA; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780226067346
ISBN
9780226067346
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 22.92

Hardcover. Offers a look at the delectable secrets of Mesopotamia. The author's broad perspective takes us inside the religious rites, everyday rituals, attitudes and taboos, and even the detailed preparation techniques involving food and drink in Mesopotamian high culture during the second and third millenniums BCE, as the Mesopotamians recorded them. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Num Pages: 152 pages, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HBJF1; HBLA; JHBT; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226067353
ISBN
9780226067353
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.05
€ 44.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226412306
ISBN
9780226412306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.39

paperback. This 1992 book shows how the discovery of the new world affected Europe intellectually, economically, and politically. Series: CANTO. Num Pages: 136 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 1K; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780521427098
ISBN
9780521427098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 18.40

Hardback. The Old Vic, one of the world's great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La Scala. In 1848 a chorus girl tried to murder the leading lady. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; AN; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571311255
ISBN
9780571311255
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.15

paperback. Margaret Angus presents the stories of some of the architecturally and historically important limestone buildings, and of their owners, and thus tells the story of Kingston from the landing of the Empire Loyalists in 1784, through its brief period as capital of Canada (1841-43) up to Confederation. Num Pages: 130 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802064196
ISBN
9780802064196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 33.15

Paperback. The Old South is a collection of primary documents and previously published essays introducing students to recent themes found in scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Old South. Editor(s): Smith, Mark M. Series: Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 1KLS; HBJK; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631219279
ISBN
9780631219279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.98

Hardback. This edited collection of primary documents and previously published essays introduces students to the principal themes in recent scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Old South. Editor(s): Smith, Mark M. Series: Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 1KLS; HBJK; HBTB; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631219262
ISBN
9780631219262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.61

Paperback. De Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French revolution remains one of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal period. Editor(s): Furet, Francois; Melonio, Francoise. Num Pages: 452 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 720.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
452
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226805306
ISBN
9780226805306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 32 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JNLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300219388
ISBN
9780300219388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804785037
ISBN
9780804785037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Paperback. The first expose of the secret U.S.-Saudi plot that broke OPEC and brought down the Shah of Iran Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; JPS; KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 191 x 35. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
552
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851689385
ISBN
9781851689385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.55

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