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Paperback. The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. This title tells this history. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; HBJD; HBLW; HBWN; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241952382
ISBN
9780241952382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Walking straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War, the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents they fought another war, a war against agony and death. This book captures a panorama of hardship, disillusion and despair, and also of endurance and supreme courage. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; MQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241952405
ISBN
9780241952405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Tells the story of anthropological fieldwork centred at Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia during mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, this book places anthropologists' assistants and informants in a central role in the making of anthropological knowledge. Num Pages: 392 pages, 23 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1HFJ; 1HFMZ; 3JJ; GTB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 634.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326731
ISBN
9780822326731
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.58

hardcover. This book is a detailed study of the modern silk industry in a county in the Yangzi delta. It reopens and restructures the grand debate on Chinese economic development, combining quantitative analysis of both industry and agriculture with study of how local politics, class, culture, and gender also shaped the modern Chinese economy. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729987
ISBN
9780804729987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.02

Hardcover. This seminal volume, now back in print in a new format and at a reduced price, offers a deeply immersive tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's most legendary building Editor(s): Waggoner, Lynda S. Num Pages: 328 pages, 300 Colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JJPG; AMB; AMKD; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 253 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1670.
Publisher
Rizzoli
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847848478
ISBN
9780847848478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 41.75

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 266 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750967150
ISBN
9780750967150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.75

Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJ; MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801489402
ISBN
9780801489402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 3JJPL; BGH; HBWQ; JWXR; JWXV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 153. .
Publisher
Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781863514958
ISBN
9781863514958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.12

Paperback. In this book leading cultural historians come together to examine how the daily activities of Scottish people reflected a constant re-construction of culture, religion, ideology and identity between 1900 and 2000. Editor(s): Abrams, Lynn; Brown, Callum G. Series: A History of Everyday Life in Scotland. Num Pages: 320 pages, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748624317
ISBN
9780748624317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.34

Hardback. List of tables and figures; List of Illustrations; Glossary; Note on Shetland dialect; Map; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Pasts, peoples, selves; 2. Stories; 3. Place; 4. Work; 5. Culture; 6. Sexualities; 7. Power; 8. Reflections; Bibliography; Index Series Editor(s): Sharpe, Pamela; Summerfield, Penny; Abrams, Lynn; Beattie, Cordelia. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 figures, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHJ; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719065927
ISBN
9780719065927
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.40

Paperback. A young soldier's honest portrayal, told through letters home and a frank journal, of his enthusiasm for the 1914 recruitment campaign, and joining up - followed by the disillusionment and degradation of soldiering in the trenches of World War I. Illustrator(s): Benfold Haywood, Ian. Num Pages: 32 pages, colour Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; 5AH; YFT; YNJ. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 276 x 224 x 3. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Quarto Publishing PLC
Number of pages
32
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847801265
ISBN
9781847801265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages, Illustrations (colour). BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBWQ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 255 x 175 x 3. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Crabtree Pub Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780778711797
ISBN
9780778711797
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

Paperback. Looks at a range of commercial objects and phenomenon, from television and toys to comic books and magazines. The author looks at the often unspoken assumptions about class, nation, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation that underscored both media images (like those of 1960s space missions) and social policies of the mass-produced suburb. Series: Console-ing Passions. Num Pages: 440 pages, 37 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJP; GTB; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 694.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822326960
ISBN
9780822326960
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 382 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691637488
ISBN
9780691637488
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.78

Paperback. This text documents the active history of the vast peasant rebellion against collectivization between 1928-1932. It reveals the manifestation in Stalin's Russia of universal strategies of peasant resistance in what amounted to virtual civil war between state and peasantry. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; JFSF; JPWQ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
324
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195131048
ISBN
9780195131048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 114.65

Hardback. Born in 1852 in the last years of serfdom, Vera Figner came of age as Imperial Russian society was being rocked by the massive upheaval that culminated in the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. At first champion of populist causes and champion of women's higher education, Figner later became a leader of the terrorist party The People's Will. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 362 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253012845
ISBN
9780253012845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.70

An acute housing shortage was one of the defining features of Soviet life. This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens. Series Editor(s): Sharpe, Pamela; Summerfield, Penny; Abrams, Lynn; Beattie, Cordelia. Series: Gender in History. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719081453
ISBN
9780719081453
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.90

Paperback. Drawing on a variety of primary sources, this book depicts the personal journeys of men who were determined to save Britain from Hitler, helped convince a cautious FDR and reluctant American public to back the British at a critical time. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBJK; HBWQ; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781925228151
ISBN
9781925228151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.99

Hardcover. Pittsburgh has a rich theatrical tradition, from early frontier performances by officers stationed at Fort Pitt through experimental theater at the end of the twentieth century. This work offers a comprehensive history of theater in Pittsburgh, placing it within the context of cultural development in the city and the history of theater nationally. Num Pages: 320 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JH; 3JJ; AN. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822943303
ISBN
9780822943303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.59

Paperback. .
Publisher
Menin House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908336989
ISBN
9781908336989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.55

Paperback. Goes beyond the media stereotype of fashionable parties in North Tehran to examine the quotidian realities of how society has evolved in Iran since the 1979 revolution. Editor(s): Monshipouri, Mahmood. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849044837
ISBN
9781849044837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.89

Paperback. Series: Helion Order of Battle S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1QFC; 3JJH; HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 302 x 215 x 9. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Helion & Company United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781874622383
ISBN
9781874622383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.69

Paperback. Series: Helion Order of Battle S. 96 pages, illustrations. The second in a series, this volume is a guide to the organization and order-of-battle of British and Commonwealth armies for the years 1944-1945. It covers: North West Europe, including the Home Front; the Mediterranean; the Pacific and Far East; the Middle East and Africa; and Special Forces. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DB; 1QFC; 3JJH; HBG; HBJD; HBWQ; JWL. Dimension: 295 x 206 x 9. Weight: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Helion and Company
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781874622901
ISBN
9781874622901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.98

Hardcover. A collection of First World War letters that lay forgotten for almost ninety years, allowing a unique glimpse into how the war was experienced at the time - and transporting us back to an era now slipping tantalizingly out of living memory. Editor(s): Bonfiglioli, Margaret; Munson, James. Num Pages: 448 pages, 23 b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; BJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 804.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198707172
ISBN
9780198707172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.57

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