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Paperback. Gandhi was not only the most important Indian figure of the 20th century, he is the most famous pacifist ever. This is a readable examination of Gandhi and the nature of his often unconventional and controversial power. Series: Profiles in Power. Num Pages: 288 pages, facsim., maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Routledge
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582319783
ISBN
9780582319783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.55

Paperback. Outlines both Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's major philosophical insights and the limitations of his thought. This very short introduction looks at Gandhi's cosmocentric anthropology, his spiritual view of politics, his unique form of liberal communitarianism, and his theories of oppression, non-violent action, and active citizenship. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, halftones and line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGH; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 113 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780192854575
ISBN
9780192854575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. They remain enduring models of leadership in a democratic society. Yet the truth was Churchill and Gandhi were bitter enemies throughout their lives. This book reveals how that rivalry shaped the twentieth century and beyond. Num Pages: 736 pages, 3 maps, 24 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JJ; HBG; HBJD1; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099493440
ISBN
9780099493440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

Hardback. Provides an original account of Gandhi's beliefs, their origins, and their expression in his political views and personal behaviour. This work examines Gandhi's ideas about the relationship between sexual temptation and spiritual power, and the bizarre and scandalous behaviour that resulted. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; JPHL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 248 x 36. Weight in Grams: 770.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845111663
ISBN
9781845111663
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 49.51

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857381613
ISBN
9780857381613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. 8vo.Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KEX0291267
ISBN
9780195156348
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi's Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072794
ISBN
9780674072794
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.13

Paperback. Dealing with the civil war, this title takes a close look at the battlefield doctors in whose hands rested the lives of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers. It also examines the impact on major campaigns - Manassas, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Atlanta - of ignorance, understaffing, inexperience, and overcrowded hospitals. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 534. Weight in Grams: 760.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780252070105
ISBN
9780252070105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism. But despite being the culmination of a range of influential movements, and their own influence, in fact there were only ever two true garden cities in England. This book offers a guide to the movement and to the communities which are its legacy. Series: Shire Library. Num Pages: 80 pages, 30 b/w; 40 col. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; ACVN; AMVD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 162 x 7. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Shire
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747813422
ISBN
9780747813422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.15

Paperback. An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy. Num Pages: 448 pages, 2 x 8pp b&w. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444760620
ISBN
9781444760620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making of his cult, to assess its impact, and understand its surprising success. Num Pages: 496 pages, 33 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 42. Weight in Grams: 758.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300144239
ISBN
9780300144239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853456667
ISBN
9780853456667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.50

Paperback. Paints a picture of two Roman auxilary regiments, the 9th Cohort of Batavians and the 1st Cohort of Tungrians. Covering officers and familes, friends and colleagues, this book brings to life the ordinary soldiers and their names and duties; military routine, duty-reports, leave and deserters; the supply of food, drink and goods; and, more. Num Pages: 176 pages, colour and b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYN; 1QDAR; HBJD1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 171 x 13. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752419503
ISBN
9780752419503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.33

Paperback. A century of change in an American industrial utopia Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBND; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222886
ISBN
9780253222886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.92

Paperback. This title reveals the true extent of how chemistry rather than military strategy determined the shape, duration and outcome of the First World War. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750953757
ISBN
9780750953757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.53

Paperback. A study that illuminates the Egyptian experience of modernity by critically analyzing the foremost medium through which it was articulated: history. Covering more than one hundred years of mostly unexamined historical literature in Arabic, it explores Egyptian historical thought and examines the careers of numerous critical historians. Num Pages: 406 pages, 4 b/w photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520257337
ISBN
9780520257337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 31.97

Hardcover. The story of how three remarkable New Yorkers helped over 3000 African American slaves escape to a life of liberty in Canada, in the decades before the American Civil War Num Pages: 320 pages, 35 black & white halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBC; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 668.
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198737902
ISBN
9780198737902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.28

Paperback. A scholarly investigation of the lesser and greater port cities of the Persian Gulf, their hinterlands, their wider influence and future prospects Editor(s): Kamrava, Mehran. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; HBJF1; KCM; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 145. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849045636
ISBN
9781849045636
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.89

Paperback. Although as much romanticized as the American cowboy, the Argentine gaucho lived a persecuted, marginal existence, beleaguered by mandatory passports, vagrancy laws, and forced military service. This title presents the story of this nineteenth-century migratory ranch hand. Num Pages: 273 pages, Illus., map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 19. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803292154
ISBN
9780803292154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 pp. Of photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HBJD; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 203 x 26. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780307473134
ISBN
9780307473134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.38

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