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Paperback. Secession Debated is a colorful and gripping tale told in the words of the actual participants, one which sheds new light on one of the great and hitherto neglected verbal showdowns in American history. It is essential to a full understanding of the origins of the war between the states. Editor(s): Freehling, William W.; Simpson, Craig M. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195079456
- ISBN
- 9780195079456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.87
€ 36.87
paperback. SECDEF offers an expert's insights into one of the most difficult jobs in Washington. Of the twenty-one men who have held the post of secretary of defense since it was created in 1947, only half served more than eighteen months. The first, James Forrestal, committed suicide soon after leaving the Pentagon. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHL; JW. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Potomac Books, Inc. United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574887952
- ISBN
- 9781574887952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.63
€ 21.63
Paperback. Tells the local, Seattle story about the Congress of Racial Equality movement to bring about a more integrated and just society Series: V Ethel Willis White Books. Num Pages: 57 illus., 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSG; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 175 x 19. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295990842
- ISBN
- 9780295990842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.12
€ 42.12
"Lofty dreams and harsh realities clash on the Texas frontier" Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896727823
- ISBN
- 9780896727823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.80
€ 40.99
€ 35.80
Paperback. Seasons of Misery offers a boldly original account of early English settlement in American by placing catastrophe and crisis at the center of the story. Donegan argues that the constant state of suffering and uncertainty decisively formed the colonial identity and produced the first distinctly colonial literature. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223774
- ISBN
- 9780812223774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
paperback. The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the peak of trade union power - and also the birth of home computers, the rise of the ready meal and the triumph of a Grantham grocer's daughter who would change everything. This title is an account of the late 1970s in Britain. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 46. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141032160
- ISBN
- 9780141032160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.13
€ 19.99
€ 17.13
Paperback. "I intend to fight it out along this line if it takes all summer," Union commander Ulysses S. Grant wrote to Washington after he'd opened his Overland Campaign in the Spring of 1864. His resolve entirely changed the face of warfare. Series: Emerging Civil War Series. Num Pages: 168 pages, 171 illustrations and 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Savas Beatie United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611211481
- ISBN
- 9781611211481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.95
€ 17.99
€ 16.95
Paperback. Stephen Ellis has written a sweeping new survey of modern Africa that goes beyond the stereotypes. He shines a positive light on Africa's potential in the post-colonial world and highlights its strength in resources. This is a guide to how money, power, religion and indigenous development will shape Africa's coming generations. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 3JM; HBJH; HBLX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849041805
- ISBN
- 9781849041805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.37
€ 17.99
€ 17.37
paperback. When President Habyarimana's jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing - which left up to a million dead. The author travelled through the country as the genocide was continuing. This analysis aims to reveal the terrible truth behind the headlines. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps, chronology. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; DNF; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140247602
- ISBN
- 9780140247602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.14
€ 12.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 37 B&W photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Sports Publishing LLC United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781613217689
- ISBN
- 9781613217689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.22
€ 15.99
€ 15.22
Hardcover. The DOCUMERICA Photography Project. 144 pages, 120 Colour. Features over 100 colour photographs from the US Environmental Agency's DOCUMERICA project, taken between 1972 and 1978. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; AJC; HBJK; HBLW3. Dimension: 287 x 250 x 19. Weight: 1148.
- Publisher
- D Giles Ltd
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907804151
- ISBN
- 9781907804151
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.41
€ 26.99
€ 19.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 34. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811714983
- ISBN
- 9780811714983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.29
€ 19.99
€ 17.29
Paperback. A history of the spiritual development and religious vision of Dorothy Day, a pioneer of American social Catholicism and co-founder of the "Catholic Worker" and the Catholic Worker Movement. It explores her spiritual roots, her sensibility, and her aesthetic vision. Series: Notre Dame Studies in American Catholicism. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BG; HBJK; HBLW; HRCC7; HRCS; HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268017705
- ISBN
- 9780268017705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Hardback. In the extensive literature about the Battle of Midway, the role of American submarines has not received adequate attention. In The Search for the Japanese Fleet: USS Nautilus and the Battle of Midway, David W. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 230 x 36. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612347165
- ISBN
- 9781612347165
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.67
€ 30.99
€ 29.67
Paperback. Re-evaluates the events and personalities of the War of Independence in Tipperary. This book looks back on Ireland's struggle for freedom. It is a journey into a turbulent period in Ireland's past - the past of charismatic guerrilla leader Sean Treacy, Tipperary's Flying Columns and the horrors of Croke Park's 'Bloody Sunday'. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, map, photos. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226. Very good copy with minimal pen scoring
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Mercier Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0013183
- ISBN
- 9781856355544
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 16.99€ 11.29
€ 16.99
€ 11.29
Paperback. Re-evaluates the events and personalities of the War of Independence in Tipperary. This book looks back on Ireland's struggle for freedom. It is a journey into a turbulent period in Ireland's past - the past of charismatic guerrilla leader Sean Treacy, Tipperary's Flying Columns and the horrors of Croke Park's 'Bloody Sunday'. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, map, photos. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Mercier Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781856355544
- ISBN
- 9781856355544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.29
€ 16.99
€ 11.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, 17 b/w ills. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Irish Academic Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780716532972
- ISBN
- 9780716532972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 19.04
€ 24.99
€ 19.04
Paperback. This biography rescues from obscurity those in the Irish revolutionary movement who, like Sean McLoughlin, not only envisaged, but fought for, an Ireland very different to the impoverished capitalist neo-colony that would come into being after 1922. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; 3JJG; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The Merlin Press Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850367058
- ISBN
- 9780850367058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.36
€ 20.99
€ 19.36
Paperback. An accessible biography about Sean MacDiarmada, a leader in the 1916 Rising. Book six in the '16 Lives' series. Series: 16Lives. Num Pages: 352 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, 1 biography, 1 index, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The O'Brien Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847172631
- ISBN
- 9781847172631
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.85
€ 13.99
€ 10.85
Paperback. Focusing on one of Ireland's most abidingly controversial political figures, this book gives a thorough account of Sean MacBride's republican activities, also exploring political subversion within the Irish Free State, the nature of Irish republican collaboration with Nazi Germany, and the larger narrative of a revolutionary movement in decline. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBLW; JPFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781380116
- ISBN
- 9781781380116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.07
€ 65.07
Paperback. This biography follows Heuston's life, from his birth in Dublin, to his time as a railway clerk in Limerick. Finally it outlines his move back to Dublin, his joining The Volunteers, the Easter Rising, his imprisonment and execution. Series Editor(s): Collins, Lorcan. Series: 16Lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; BGH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The O'Brien Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847172686
- ISBN
- 9781847172686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 9.99
€ 16.99
€ 9.99
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
Paperback. 'Sea Wolves' is the story of the crews who bravely manned British submarines in the Second World War. This small band of highly trained and highly skilled individuals fought in the front line for six long years, undertaking some of the most dangerous missions of the war. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349122892
- ISBN
- 9780349122892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.19
€ 17.99
€ 13.19
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, over 200 bw images. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP; JWF; JWG; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764333415
- ISBN
- 9780764333415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 35.23
€ 53.99
€ 35.23