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Paperback. Responsible for some of the most magnificent industrial architecture in the UK, this is the story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel Through Time Series: Through Time. Num Pages: 96 pages, 180. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Amberley
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848689633
ISBN
9781848689633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.95

Hardback. Daniel Haines uncovers the history of one of the most important factors in relations between these two South Asian powers -- water Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; HBJF; HBLW3; JPS; RNFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 150 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849047166
ISBN
9781849047166
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.18

Paperback. Presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. This book combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz's military theories and of his unduly neglected historical and political writing. It is useful for anyone interested in Clausewitz and his theories. Num Pages: 496 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BGH; HBJD; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 696.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691131306
ISBN
9780691131306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. .
Publisher
Book on Demand Pod
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9785878591126
ISBN
9785878591126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 6.96

Paperback. The untold story of how our national obsession with gardening came to be. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; HBJD1; HBT; WMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445660295
ISBN
9781445660295
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.04

Hardback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Dimension: 167 x 243 x 31. Weight in Grams: 714.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674046573
ISBN
9780674046573
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Paperback. Henry Fynes Clinton's two-volume tabular history of the Roman Empire, first published in 1845 and 1850. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics. Num Pages: 876 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 322 x 25 x 75. Weight in Grams: 2310.
Publisher
Cambridge Library Collection United Kingdom
Number of pages
876
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781108012478
ISBN
9781108012478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.47
€ 54.24

Paperback. Drawing on fieldwork and archival research, Shaw argues that memories of the slave trade in Sierra Leone have shaped (and been reshaped by) experiences of colonialism, postcolonialsm, and the country's ten-year rebel war. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; HBTS; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 125 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226751320
ISBN
9780226751320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. The kinds of punishment used in a society have been considered an important criterion in judging whether a society is civilized or barbaric, advanced or backward, modern or premodern. This title asks how such distinctions have affected our understanding of the past and contributed to the proliferation of kinds of barbarity in the modern world. Num Pages: 312 pages, 17 halftones. 1 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; HBTB; JKVP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691130309
ISBN
9780691130309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Hardback. This innovative microhistory of a fascinating yet neglected city shows how its loyalty to Venice was tested by military attack, economic downturn, and demographic collapse. Despite these trials, Brescia experienced cultural revival and political transformation, which Bowd uses to explain state formation in a powerful region of Renaissance Italy. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 374 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DD; 1DST; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
374
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674051201
ISBN
9780674051201
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.64
€ 50.89

Hardback. Editor(s): McElligott, Anthony; Herf, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 390 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBTZ; HBWQ; HRAX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319488653
ISBN
9783319488653
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.22

Paperback. A study of the life, career, beliefs and motives of Cavour, first prime minister of Italy. This was a position which he created, as it did not exist when his career began. Topics covered include the argument that Cavour was more interested in increasing Piedmont's power than in Italian unification. Series: Profiles in Power. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Publication date
1994
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582019034
ISBN
9780582019034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 73.22

Hardback. Editor(s): Smith, Andrew; Barton, Anna. Series: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JM; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784995102
ISBN
9781784995102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.97

Hardback. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere. Series: Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College. Num Pages: 336 pages, 18 halftones, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1F; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBJF; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 178 x 27. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674067059
ISBN
9780674067059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Hardcover. Timothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DS; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674659797
ISBN
9780674659797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JKV; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 213.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486779997
ISBN
9780486779997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. A poignant, facsimile manual showing how to dig a trench, mount a bayonet charge, aim a field artillery piece and bury the dead from official books supplied by the War Office during the First World War Num Pages: 288 pages, 40. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 124. .
Publisher
Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445638225
ISBN
9781445638225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Hardcover. Maoists at the Hearth details the ways that inhabitants of a hill village in central Nepal managed their everyday activities following the arrival of Maoist insurgents in the late 1990s, exploring their changing social relationships with fellow villagers and the parties to the conflict both during and after the civil war. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKN; HBJF; HBW; JFFE; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244922
ISBN
9780812244922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.60

Hardcover. Hand-illuminated scrolls by Cora Healy-Tobin commemorate members of The Alberta Order of Excellence--Alberta's highest honour. Illustrator(s): Healy-Tobin, Cora. Editor(s): Sivak, Allison. Series: Northern Reference Series. Num Pages: 188 pages, colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 312 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1634.
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
168
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888644855
ISBN
9780888644855
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.06
€ 77.61

Paperback. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478. Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies. 352 pages. Europe's imperial projects were often predicated on a series of legal and scientific distinctions that were frequently challenged by the reality of social and sexual interactions between the colonized and the colonizers. This title reveals the unacknowledged but central role of race in the definition of French nationality. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBTQ; JFSL; JHMC. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight: 480. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226733081
ISBN
9780226733081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.82

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