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Paperback. This authoritative account of the Taliban's remarkable rebirth in Pakistan and Afghanistan traces the roots of the region's Islamic extremism and examines the role of America's political policies and strategic military decisions in enabling the troubling resurgence of the dangerously repressive fundamentalists. Num Pages: 296 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1FKP; HBJF; HBLX; HBWS4; JPWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 482.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300216165
ISBN
9780300216165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.19

Paperback. Offers readers a look at the time when sound was a vexing challenge for filmmakers and the source of contentious debate for audiences and critics. Donald Crafton presents a panoramic view of the talkies' reception as well as an in-depth look at sound design in selected films, amongst other issues. Series: History of the American Cinema S. Num Pages: 651 pages, 188 b/w photographs, 7 tables, 3 graphs, 1 figure. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; HBJK; HBLW; HBT; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 176 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1110. American Cinema's Transition to Sound, 1926-1931. Series: History of the American Cinema S. 651 pages, 182 b&w photographs. Offers readers a look at the time when sound was a vexing challenge for filmmakers and the source of contentious debate for audiences and critics. Donald Crafton presents a panoramic view of the talkies' reception as well as an in-depth look at sound design in selected films, amongst other issues. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; HBJK; HBLW; HBT; KNTC. Dimension: 253 x 176 x 39. Weight: 1110.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
651
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520221284
ISBN
9780520221284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.10

Paperback. A raw and gripping account of the Second World War and the men and the Machines who beat Hitler Num Pages: 432 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ; JWMV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 28. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349000145
ISBN
9780349000145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Hardback. Formisano's brief history certainly gives us clues. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPF; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 208 x 15. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405964
ISBN
9781421405964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.73

Hardback. Num Pages: 339 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAK; HBJK; HDDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 241 x 29. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
339
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477310816
ISBN
9781477310816
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.32

Hardback. Entomologist Gene Kritsky presents the first full-length discussion of the ways in which bees were a part of life in ancient Egypt. From the presence of bees in paintings and hieroglyphs in tombs to the use of beeswax in a variety of products, bees had a significant presence in ancient Egyptian culture. Num Pages: 160 pages, 103. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; HBJH; HBLA1; TVHH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199361380
ISBN
9780199361380
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.23

Paperback. Acontroversial history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single family, the Lows, ancestors of the author, Ferdinand Mount Num Pages: 784 pages, 2 x 8pp 4-4 plates. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
784
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471129469
ISBN
9781471129469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Hardback. Hochfelder thus supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age. Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLL; TBX; TJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407470
ISBN
9781421407470
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 54.57

Hardback. Although we may be aware that China and Japan were not nation-states until relatively recently, we still speak and write about Han dynasty China or Jomon Japan. And almost all historians refer to prehistoric China or Japan. Thus imposing the national story on the local, the authors contend, harms the historical record. Editor(s): Fogel, Joshua A. Series: Encounters with Asia. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1FPJ; HBJF; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812238204
ISBN
9780812238204
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.98

Paperback. Pledged to defend the Christian holy places, the Templars formed a monastic order of "fighting monks". This collection of translated sources examines the activities of the order from its establishment in 1099, through the arrests of the French members in 1307 until its dissolution in 1392 Translator(s): Barber, Malcolm; Bate, Keith (former Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading); Bate, Keith (Former Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading). Series: Manchester Medieval Sources. Num Pages: 368 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD; HBLH; HRCC2; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719051104
ISBN
9780719051104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.96

Paperback. The dramatic, ultimately tragic history of the Knights Templar, the largest and most powerful military order of the Crusades. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16, 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HRAM9; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753810873
ISBN
9780753810873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.85

Hardback. In Germany the end of World War II calls forth images of obliterated cities, hungry refugees, and ghostly monuments to Nazi crimes. Drawing on diaries, photographs, essays, reports, fiction and film, Werner Sollors makes visceral the sorrow and anger, guilt and pride, despondency and resilience of a defeated people--and the paradoxes of occupation. Num Pages: 390 pages, Illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJ; AJC; APFA; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 752.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674052437
ISBN
9780674052437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.27

Paperback. The riveting story of the sex scandal that threatened the life of the young Elizabeth Tudor, and whose outcome was pivotal to the creation of the public persona of Elizabeth I. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784081737
ISBN
9781784081737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.09

Hardback. The riveting story of the sex scandal that threatened the life of the young Elizabeth Tudor, and whose outcome was pivotal to the creation of the public persona of Elizabeth I. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 35. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
9781784081720
ISBN
9781784081720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3H; DSB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801480362
ISBN
9780801480362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.92

Hardback. Translator(s): Appleton, Naomi; Shaw, Sarah. Num Pages: 698 pages, 2 vols., 163 color illus. BIC Classification: 1F; DQ; HBJF; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 253 x 64. Weight in Grams: 1764.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Thailand
Number of pages
698
Condition
New
SKU
V9786162151125
ISBN
9786162151125
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.73

Paperback. A grand overview of the New World's most recognizable but least understood ancient city--Teotihuacan, in the Valley of Mexico--which proposes a new model for the city's social and political structure. Series: The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Num Pages: 230 pages, 131 figures. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK; HD; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 508. Weight in Grams: 936.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292723092
ISBN
9780292723092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.04

Hardcover. Presents a document from the last months of the Holocaust. This book tells the story of the Terezin camp and how the author and her family fared while imprisoned there. Editor(s): Dwork, Deborah. Num Pages: 280 pages, 124 colour plates. BIC Classification: BG; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 273 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1182.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Facsimile ed
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226511863
ISBN
9780226511863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.58

Paperback. In this wholly definitive work, David Andress examines the The French Revolution: the birth of a new ideological age and the bloody emergence of Europe's first political terrorists. Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349115887
ISBN
9780349115887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Hardback. Reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors - from the existential condition and natural disasters to the succession of wars and other man-made catastrophes. In chapters that range across Western history and culture, this book takes up religion, the material world, and the world of art and knowledge in turn. Num Pages: 200 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 3H; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; HRAM7; HRLK2; HRQX5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691124131
ISBN
9780691124131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.57

Hardcover. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880336116
ISBN
9780880336116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

paperback. Argues that the revolutionaries of eighteenth-century France used the natural right concept of the 'enemy of the human race' - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 2. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780226184395
ISBN
9780226184395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 28.09

Hardcover. Argues that the revolutionaries of eighteenth-century France used the natural right concept of the 'enemy of the human race' - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Num Pages: 350 pages, 6 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTV2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 28. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226184388
ISBN
9780226184388
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 45.88

Hardback. In the Tet Offensive of 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launched a massive countrywide attack on South Vietnam. This work claims Hanoi won a strategic victory. It begins with a historical overview of the events leading up to the offensive, the attack itself, and the consequent battles of Saigon, Hue, and Khe Sahn. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231128407
ISBN
9780231128407
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.11
€ 79.73

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