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Hardcover. The religious landscape of modern Germany is one that would scarcely be recognizable to earlier generations. This groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society that has almost entirely shed its Christian character despite a booming market for syncretistic, individualistic forms of "popular religion." Translator(s): Skinner, Alex. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; HRAX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785332784
ISBN
9781785332784
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.77

Hardback. In 1944, a daily onslaught by V-1 jet-propelled flying bombs, heading for London and southern England, was countered in the skies of Kent and Sussex. This work details almost every known success by the defending pilots of over 13 nationalities, and where detected, records the locations and casualties of V-1 impacts in London and the south east. Num Pages: 256 pages, 16pp b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBJK; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 166 x 44. Weight in Grams: 886.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Grub Street United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904943396
ISBN
9781904943396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.40
€ 51.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 380 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJPG; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 131 x 40. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ridinghouse United Kingdom
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905464029
ISBN
9781905464029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.40
€ 49.48

paperback. The fifth in a series of volumes from the annual British Silent Cinema Festival held in Nottingham (and the first to be published by Exeter), this collective study offers an original treatment of the relationship between pre-1930 cinema and landscape. Series: New Research in British Film and Television Studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, b&w illustrations, colour cover. BIC Classification: 3JJ; APFA; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9781905816019
ISBN
9781905816019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.26

Hardcover. Part reference, part gripping narrative this is the complete history of prisoner of war (POW) camp, Luft 7, and its airmen told in full detail for the first time, a camp that existed for barely thirty-two weeks from its opening in early June 1944 to its closure in mid January 1945. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16pp black and white photos. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 252 x 170 x 39. Weight in Grams: 976.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Grub Street United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909166202
ISBN
9781909166202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.40
€ 51.76

Paperback. A starkly compelling, original chronicle of survival in Nazi-occupied Poland, available in English for the first time Translator(s): Bogin, Magda. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BM; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934137451
ISBN
9781934137451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.01

Hardback. Covering a wide variety of topics, including science, citizenship, gender, and anti-Semitism, the author demonstrates how sin which rhetoric tied to blood and vampires permeated political discourse and transcended the disparate cultures of Great Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, forming a cohesive political and cultural metaphor. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFHF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934843611
ISBN
9781934843611
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.85

hardcover. Explores how members of the ever beleaguered Jewish people grappled with their identity during the past century in the United States and in Eretz Israel, the new centers of Jewry's long historical experience. Series: Judaism and Jewish Life. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 770.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235209
ISBN
9781936235209
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.55
€ 102.04

Hardback. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations in colour. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 3JM; AFKN; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 190. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Verlag fur Moderne Kunst Germany
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9783903131255
ISBN
9783903131255
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.59

Hardback. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: 1DNS; 3JJ; 3JM; ACXJ; AGB; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 270 x 210. Weight in Grams: 293.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Verlag fur Moderne Kunst Germany
Number of pages
60
Condition
New
SKU
V9783903131538
ISBN
9783903131538
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.53

paperback. Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots, arson, unemployment, crime and corruption. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNG; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099553885
ISBN
9780099553885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 11.01

paperback. Tells the history of the Blitz in the Second World War. This book examines the well-known parts of the campaign, and the significance of bombing on many other fronts - the German use of bombers on the Eastern Front for example (and discovered material on the more familiar 'Blitz' on Britain), or the Allied campaigns against Italian cities. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141003214
ISBN
9780141003214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.13

paperback. The 1950s was the decade in which Roger Bannister ran the four-minute mile, Bill Haley released "Rock Around the Clock", rationing ended and Britain embarked on the traumatic, disastrous Suez War. This book captures Britain in a decade, emerging from the shadow of war into growing affluence. Num Pages: 768 pages, 32 pp b/w/ inset. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141004099
ISBN
9780141004099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 16.68

paperback. Part of the trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, this final book shows how Germany rushed headlong into destroying itself, shattering an entire continent. It is a history that conjures up a whole society plunged into conflict - tracing events from the invasion of Poland to Hitler's plans for genocide and his eventual suicide. Num Pages: 944 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141015484
ISBN
9780141015484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.46

paperback. Features the story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's pre-eminent international financial centre. It shows how this scholarly man brought wit, passion and high ethical standards to the world of finance, and more. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJP; BGB; KFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141022017
ISBN
9780141022017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.50

paperback. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141026916
ISBN
9780141026916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.46

paperback. The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the peak of trade union power - and also the birth of home computers, the rise of the ready meal and the triumph of a Grantham grocer's daughter who would change everything. This title is an account of the late 1970s in Britain. Num Pages: 992 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBLW3; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 46. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141032160
ISBN
9780141032160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.13

paperback. When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. This title presents the event with an account of six men and women who survived despite all the odds. Series: Penguin Magnum Collection. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141041865
ISBN
9780141041865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 12.37

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

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780307475213
ISBN
9780307475213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.71

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