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hardcover. This book deals with a sequence of lively and often bizarre episodes within San Francisco's Russian community set in motion in early 1888 by the arrival in San Francisco of a new Russian Orthodox bishop--and his entourage, which included some twenty clergymen and eleven boys. Num Pages: 268 pages, 13 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC8; JFFE; JFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 487.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727679
- ISBN
- 9780804727679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.35
€ 83.35
Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and His Internment Wri...
Morning Glory Evening Shadow Yamato Ichi
hardcover. This book presents both a biography of a Stanford University professor, one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States, and, through Ichihashi's wartime writings, the only known comprehensive first-person account of life in U.S. "relocation centers" for persons of Japanese ancestry. Editor(s): Chang, Gordon G. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 584 pages, 37 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BGH; HBJK; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1010.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727334
- ISBN
- 9780804727334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.11
€ 186.11
hardcover. Bringing local history to bear on major questions in Chinese social history and anthropology, this volume comprises a series of historical and ethnographic studies of the Pearl River Delta from late imperial times through the 1940's. Editor(s): Faure, David; Siu, Helen F. Num Pages: 300 pages, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724340
- ISBN
- 9780804724340
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.34
€ 139.34
hardcover. This book is the first to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire, an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and an imported Protestant elite living in fortified manors and medieval castles Series Editor(s): Lethbridge, J. B. Series: The Manchester Spenser. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JB; AMKL; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press Manchester
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719082467
- ISBN
- 9780719082467
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.00
€ 149.00
Architects of the Resurrection: Ailtirí na hAisérghe and the Fascist...
Architects Of The Resurrection
hardcover. Seeking the creation of a one-party totalitarian state, Ailtiri na hAiseirghe was Ireland's leading fascist movement during the Second World War. Architects of the Resurrection reconstructs the hidden history of this pro-Axis organisation, and its ambitious plans to make Ireland the leading light of ultra-right extremism in the postwar world. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW; JPFQ; JPL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press Manchester
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719079733
- ISBN
- 9780719079733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.57
€ 139.57
hardcover. Exploring the politics of one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century Ireland, this book shows how John Hume helped to change the thinking of Irish nationalism, and lay the foundations of the Northern Ireland peace process. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; HBJD1; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press Manchester, UK
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719079566
- ISBN
- 9780719079566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.18
€ 150.18
hardcover. Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families this book provides fresh insight into the place of women in the Irish wealthy landed class. Num Pages: 256 pages, Tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press Manchester
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719077982
- ISBN
- 9780719077982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.91
€ 149.91
hardcover. Presents an examination of the attempts to regulate female sexuality in twentieth-century Northern Ireland, from the 1900s to the 1960s. This study explores a wide range of women's experiences from those involved in prostitution and suspected of having VD, to the anxieties generated by the behaviour of girls and young women in general. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFSJ1; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press Manchester
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719076640
- ISBN
- 9780719076640
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.37
€ 149.37
hardcover. The first academic study of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a paramilitary organisation, which was formed in 1913 by Ulster Unionists opposed to the Third Home Rule Bill. The Ulster Volunteer Force provided the basis of the 36th (Ulster) Division formed in 1914 and was reactivated in 1920 to counter the I.R.A. threat to the new Northern Ireland state. Num Pages: 256 pages, Line drawings, unspecified|Maps. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLW; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719073717
- ISBN
- 9780719073717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.31
€ 149.31
paperback. The New York Times Bestseller Superb Lash has reached the highest level of the biographer s art. Wall Street Journal" Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393349764
- ISBN
- 9780393349764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.54
€ 17.99
€ 16.54
paperback. Now hailed as a classic, one of the most unforgettable and heartbreaking books ever written about the Vietnam War. Num Pages: 512 pages, 16 pages of photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWS2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 463
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393342819
- ISBN
- 9780393342819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.47
€ 18.99
€ 17.47
paperback. Num Pages: 438 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 202 x 24. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Anchor New York
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 438
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385044516
- ISBN
- 9780385044516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.17
€ 19.99
€ 18.17
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307475213
- ISBN
- 9780307475213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.71
€ 19.99
€ 16.71
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295986500
- ISBN
- 9780295986500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.27
€ 44.27
paperback. Traces the history of African Americans in California Editor(s): De Graaf, Lawrence Brooks; Mulroy, Kevin; Taylor, Quintard, Jr. Series: Series No Longer Used. Num Pages: 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; GTB; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press Seattle
- Number of pages
- 550
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295980836
- ISBN
- 9780295980836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.19
€ 61.19
paperback. Features an account of the 19th century conquests of the highest and most imposing of Pacific Northwest mountains, Mt. Rainier. This is the history of organized mountaineering in the Northwest as well as of Mt. Rainier and those who accepted its challenge. It carries those stories when Mt. Rainier achieved the status of a national park. Series: Columbia Northwest Classics. Num Pages: 278 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; WSZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press Washington
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295978475
- ISBN
- 9780295978475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.05
€ 37.05
The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nine...
The Life Of An Unknown The Redi
hardcover. Corbin recreates the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical knowledge about the times in which he lived: Louis-Francois Pinagot, a forester and clog maker who lived during the heart of the nineteenth century -- the age of Romanticism, of Hugo and Berlioz -- from the Napoleonic Wars to the Third Republic. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231118408
- ISBN
- 9780231118408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.31
€ 82.31
paperback. Based on analysis of a generation of leaders who came to power in Chile after 1970, this text focuses on how Allende's followers justify their political objectives through the course of their victory, violent defeat and gradual return to politics during Chile's redemocratization process. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPFF; JPHL; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110174
- ISBN
- 9780231110174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.63
€ 48.63
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230341982
- ISBN
- 9780230341982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.61
€ 21.99
€ 19.61
paperback. Relates the author's childhood in Palestine, the flight to Britain after the catastrophe of 1948, and coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, the middle-class Jewish quarter in North London. Num Pages: 452 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJP; BGA; HBJF1; HBLW3; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844673681
- ISBN
- 9781844673681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.44
€ 38.44
paperback. The Allied assault on Normandy was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of fighting before the German forces were beaten and Paris liberated. This account of the struggle is related through the different points of view of the six armies who fought to liberate and defend France. Num Pages: 416 pages, 38. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844137398
- ISBN
- 9781844137398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.73
€ 19.99
€ 13.73
paperback. When the Germans arrived on the Channel Islands after the defeat of France in the summer of 1940, they and the islanders agreed that it would be a "Model Occupation". But as the war dragged on and Britain appeared to abandon the islands to their fate, so features of Nazi occupation already widespread throughout Europe emerged. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBWQ; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784707163
- ISBN
- 9781784707163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.10
€ 19.99
€ 15.10
paperback. Tells the story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, is one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. This book presents a tale with profound moral and social consequences, rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violence. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGH; BGR; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784700041
- ISBN
- 9781784700041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 12.37
€ 19.99
€ 12.37
paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages, 8pp plates illustrations/5 integrated maps and diagrams. BIC Classification: 1HBE; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780712668279
- ISBN
- 9780712668279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.73
€ 19.99
€ 13.73