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paperback. Robert Fortune was a Scottish gardener, botanist, plant hunter - and industrial spy. In 1848, the East India Company engaged him to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China - territory forbidden to foreigners - to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea. This title presents Fortune's daring trip. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; KCLT; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099493426
ISBN
9780099493426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens. This history of the American reliance on employment-based benefits examines the interwoven politics of social provision and labor relations from the 1910s to the 1960s. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 halftones. 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126050
ISBN
9780691126050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.59

paperback. Series: Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780252067075
ISBN
9780252067075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9781501705595
ISBN
9781501705595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.84

Paperback. The definitive history of Austria s multinational army and its immense role during three centuries of European military history" Num Pages: 616 pages, 30 b/w illus + 7 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3J; HBJD; HBW; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127. .
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
616
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300219678
ISBN
9780300219678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.01

Paperback. "Gaines has a deft understanding of the Washington-Lafayette relationship .. [and] a knack for wielding substantial research with aplomb."-San Francisco Chronicle Num Pages: 512 pages, 16 pages of illustrations; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st PAPERBACK
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393333510
ISBN
9780393333510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.93

paperback. The history of Orientalism shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the chronology of Harun al-Rashid's military campaigns against Byzantium, scholars have been unified by their shared obsession. This book is a work of scholarship. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; HBAH; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140289237
ISBN
9780140289237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.82

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Bock, Janna. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HBJF. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 228 x 279 x 6. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Capstone Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781491465561
ISBN
9781491465561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.96

Paperback. In this book R.W. Scribner provides the first detailed analysis of the forms of popular propaganda which were aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the Reformation in Germany. Hailed as a pioneering study of great importance on its original publication in 1981, For the Sake of Simple Folk is now available in paperback for the first time. Series: Clarendon Paperbacks. Num Pages: 360 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198203261
ISBN
9780198203261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 109.83

Paperback. This volume explores the dramatic struggle between Nazism and the German Confessing Church - a group of outraged Christians who sought to establish a church untainted by Nazi ideology. The author's research included interviews with more than 60 Germans who were active in the Confessing Church. Num Pages: 384 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW3; HRCC99; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195121186
ISBN
9780195121186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.45

paperback. This volume brings together essays by 14 accomplished Lincoln scholars. They provide an insight into how Lincoln's administration dealt with the issues of war and slavery. The work covers facets of three general themes, the problems of emancipation, presidential politics, and the Lincoln legacy. Series: The North's Civil War. Num Pages: 267 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 221 x 14. Weight in Grams: 383.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823219605
ISBN
9780823219605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Hardcover. A biography of Patience Darton that tells the story of this young, upper middle-class nurse in the 1930s who becomes dramatically caught up in Spain's civil war and the passionate political issues of her times, but whose intimate writings reveal emotions and attitudes that strike a chord with most self-aware and determined women. Num Pages: 256 pages, 140 illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195144
ISBN
9781845195144
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.77

Hardcover. Num Pages: 456 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSL4; JWMV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 304 x 228. .
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764352508
ISBN
9780764352508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.14
€ 64.71

Paperback. In 1432, the Office of the Night was created specifically to police sodomy in Florence. Seventy years of denunciations, accusations and sentencings left an extraordinarily detailed record, which the author uses in this portrait, calling into question modern conceptions of sexuality and gender. Series: Studies in the History of Sexuality. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 halftone, line figures, tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
382
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195122923
ISBN
9780195122923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.74

Paperback. This anthology encompasses a broad range of essays on sexuality spanning European history from the fifteenth century to the present. Editor(s): Fout, John C. Num Pages: 416 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226257839
ISBN
9780226257839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.46

Paperback. Editor(s): Kolimon, Mery; Wetangterah, Liliya; Campbell-Nelson, Karen. Translator(s): Lindsay, Jennifer. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBTB; JFFE; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Monash University Publishing Australia
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781922235909
ISBN
9781922235909
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.73

Paperback. This text explores American culture from the mid-19th century to 1920 through the lens of one episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language amongst deaf people. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 halftones, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFZ; HBJK; HBLL; JFC; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226039640
ISBN
9780226039640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 x 8 page b&w insets. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVUA; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444785142
ISBN
9781444785142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. A fascinating book celebrating the 'the most important body formed during the twentieth century' - the Women's Institute Num Pages: 304 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844086603
ISBN
9781844086603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.84

Paperback.
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork, Ireland
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859183793
ISBN
9781859183793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.00
€ 24.15

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