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Hardback. Throughout the Cold War, theorists argue, nuclear arms stopped war, as both sides could retaliate with "mutual assured destruction". This fact begs the question: why did the USA not strike preemptively before the USSR developed atomic arms? This text sets the case for such a preventive nuclear war. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJP; JPS; JWMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9780765800220
ISBN
9780765800220
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.27

Paperback. Filling in a key chapter in communications history, this title offers an examination of the rise of the "global media" between 1860 and 1930. It analyzes the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 456 pages, 25 illustrations, 13 tables, 10 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJC; HBTB; JFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 156 x 47. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822339281
ISBN
9780822339281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.93

Paperback. Mao Zedong launched the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" 30 years ago. This documentary history of the event presents a selection of key primary documents dealing with the Cultural Revolution's massive and bloody assault on China's political and social systems. Num Pages: 352 pages, photographs, chronology, maps, biographies, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPK; HBJF; HBLW3; HBTB; HBTV; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781563247378
ISBN
9781563247378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Edition
Second
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612053028
ISBN
9781612053028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.65

Paperback. 'An extraordinary book..Doggett emerges triumphant. Grab a copy - By Any Means Necessary.' (5 stars)-Mojo Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 46. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781847671141
ISBN
9781847671141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.37

Hardback. Mark Halfon looks at life in the major leagues in the early 1900s, the careers of John McGraw, Ty Cobb, and Walter Johnson, and the events that brought about the end of the Deadball Era. He highlights the strategies, underhand tactics, and bitter battles that defined this storied time in baseball history. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612346489
ISBN
9781612346489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.37

Paperback. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBLL; HBLW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Condition
New
Publication date
2022
SKU
V9781780937281
ISBN
9781780937281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. A new anthology that combines generous selections from well-known soldier poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon with work by civilian and women poets. A general introduction places Great War poetry in its contexts and the work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that explains the circumstances of composition. Editor(s): Kendall, Tim. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJF; DCQ; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 195 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
New
SKU
9780198703204
ISBN
9780198703204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.32

Hardcover. The first comprehensive survey of Czech avant-garde photography of the first half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 311 pages, 328 illus., 15 color. BIC Classification: 1DVKC; 3JJG; 3JJH; AJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1754.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262025164
ISBN
9780262025164
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.63

Paperback. Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International and Comparative Perspectives. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JPA; JPHF; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691164700
ISBN
9780691164700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.43

Paperback. Two young girls struggle to make sense of their new world in this eccentric and compelling wartime memoir Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMS; 3JJH; BM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210. A Wartime Childhood. 304 pages. Two young girls struggle to make sense of their new world in this eccentric and compelling wartime memoir. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMS; 3JJH; BM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Dimension: 126 x 197 x 20. Weight: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408822371
ISBN
9781408822371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.06

Hardcover. The book follows the development of jazz over a decade and a half, paying particular attention to two outstanding figures: Humphrey Lyttelton and John Dankworth. It also seeks to convey a flavour of that now remote era and the frisson that jazz created. Series: Popular Music History. Num Pages: 167 pages, 14 black and white photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; AVGJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845537128
ISBN
9781845537128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.95

Paperback. Examines the relationship between national history, identity, and politics in twentieth-century Macedonia. This work focuses on the reverberating power of events surrounding an armed uprising in August 1903, when a revolutionary organization challenged the forces of the Ottoman Empire by seizing control of the mountain town of Krusevo. Num Pages: 320 pages, 13 halftones. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVWYM; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691099958
ISBN
9780691099958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. The American artist Arthur Dove (1880-1946), purportedly the first artist to have produced an abstract painting, has always occupied a central place in writings on early American modernism. This book accompanies the first major exhibition on Dove since 1974. Num Pages: 196 pages, 54 duo tone illustrations, 90 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; ACXD; AFC; AFF; AGB; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 305 x 226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1135.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262522403
ISBN
9780262522403
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.61

Paperback. Melanie McGrath's critically acclaimed East End family memoir now in paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJ; BGHA; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KOG0000945
ISBN
9781841151434
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. The only scholarly account of Irish corruption from 1922-2010. It empirically maps the decline in standards since Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of economic sovereignty in 2010. Num Pages: 288 pages, Graphs|Tables, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJ; 3JM; JPZ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454. This book empirically maps the decline in standards since the inauguration of Irish independence in 1922, to the loss of Irish economic sovereignty in 2010. It argues that the definition of corruption is an evolving one. As the nature of the state changes, so too does the type of corruption.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Manchester University Press Manchester
Condition
New
SKU
9780719086885
ISBN
9780719086885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.82

Paperback. New in paperback. Addressing as it does aspects of the Northern Troubles, inter-church and church-state relations, Rendering to God and Caesar will appeal to a number of audiences with an interest in twentieth century Irish history across the globe. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 1DBR; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTB; HRCC7; HRCC91. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 413 288pp. Keywords: "Post-war Period, 1946-Present, Archaeology, Social & Economic History, General, Catholic, Anglicanism, Education Studies, English, Paperback"
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Manchester University Press Manchester
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
9780719073472
ISBN
9780719073472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations, facsims., maps, ports. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 207 x 7. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pearson Education (US) United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780136032533
ISBN
9780136032533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 147.65

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347385
ISBN
9780822347385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.71

Paperback. Flyboy 2 provides a panoramic view of the last thirty years of Greg Tate's influential cultural criticism of contemporary Black music, art, literature, film, and politics. These essays, interviews, and reviews cover everything from Miles Davis, Ice Cube, and Suzan Lori Parks to Afro-futurism, Kara Walker, and Amiri Baraka. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; AVGN; BGF; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361961
ISBN
9780822361961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.70

Hardback. In this work, with the help of Steven DeVito, Womer provides an amazingly frank look at close-quarters combat in Europe, as well as the almost surreal experience of dust-bowl-era GI's entering country after country in their grapple with the Wehrmacht, finally ending up in Hitler's mountaintop lair in Germany itself. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrated section. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 632. The World War II Memoirs of Jack Womer - Ranger and Paratrooper. 304 pages, illustrated section. In this work, with the help of Steven DeVito, Womer provides an amazingly frank look at close-quarters combat in Europe, as well as the almost surreal experience of dust-bowl-era GI's entering country after country in their grapple with the Wehrmacht, finally ending up in Hitler's mountaintop lair in Germany itself. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWH. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612001005
ISBN
9781612001005
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.72

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter. Series: Elite. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBLW; HBWQ; JWKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 184 x 5. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846032912
ISBN
9781846032912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.41

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
9780857202253
ISBN
9780857202253
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 7.28

Paperback. A pioneering analysis of how the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme have been remembered in Ireland since 1916. Editor(s): Grayson, Richard S.; McGarry, Fearghal. Num Pages: 280 pages, 17 b/w illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781316509272
ISBN
9781316509272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.61

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