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Paperback. As an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena. Interned by the Japanese in Java, he helped his fellow prisoners in awful conditions. His life was literally saved by the dropping of the Nagasaki atom bomb. This title presents his account. Num Pages: 260 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; BGH; HBG; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Grub Street
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904943402
ISBN
9781904943402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.86

Hardcover. Maine-born Dr. Sumner "Jack" Jackson joined the British Army as a volunteer physician during World War I. After the Battle of the Somme, he married a beautiful French Red Cross nurse. Num Pages: 224 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 494.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574887730
ISBN
9781574887730
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.28

Paperback. Alice Taylor takes us through her home, reflecting back on the routine of her family life growing up in rural Ireland in the 1950s - a time when food was home-baked and everything was reused. An uplifting account, full of nostalgia and wise words to treasure from Ireland's best-loved author. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJPG; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
O´Brien Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847178664
ISBN
9781847178664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.92

Hardback. Dmitri Shostakovich was one of the great composers of the 20th century, the first major Soviet composer and a figure of some controversy. This third edition is an up-to-date catalogue of the composer;s works. Num Pages: 720 pages, bibliography, footnotes, index. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1107.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
720
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810844322
ISBN
9780810844322
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 192.12

For the people of the South, railroads were both an economic boon and a metaphor for industrialization. In this reconsideration of their part in southern culture, the author explores the depiction of the railroads in southern literature and their impact on southern culture. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTB; JFC; KCZ; WGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813122342
ISBN
9780813122342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.84

Hardback. Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the nineteenth century continue to shape alternative spiritualities today. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11, 10 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HRQC5; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801864995
ISBN
9780801864995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.67

Paperback. The National Council of Churches established the Delta Ministry in 1964 to further the cause of civil rights in Mississippi. This work is a full-length history of one of the largest and most enduring civil rights organizations in the Mississippi movement. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1 map, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW; HRCC99; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820325323
ISBN
9780820325323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.23

hardcover. Dividing the Nile counters that Egyptian entrepreneurs failed to develop a united economy or shared economic interests, guaranteeing Egypt's 'loss' of the Sudan. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1HBS; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 772.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Condition
New
SKU
9789774166389
ISBN
9789774166389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 8.29

Paperback. Despite widespread claims to the contrary, Japan's high-tech industrial policies over the last two turbulent decades have proved to be neither cooperative nor successful. This book focuses on MITI and Japan's giant electronics firms-their ambitions and conflicts-to show that the policymaking process is torn by conflict and competition. Series: Studies in International Policy. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; KJK; KNDH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804731546
ISBN
9780804731546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Hardback. Based on archival research in four countries, this title uncovers important links between international power politics and everyday matters of rights, identity, and resistance to colonial authority, while re-interpreting the whole arc of French rule in Tunisia from the 1880s to the mid-20th century. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1HBT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520279155
ISBN
9780520279155
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 b/w photos, 3 b/w maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Helion & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911096641
ISBN
9781911096641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.17

paperback. When the Berlin wall fell and the reunification of Germany began, Willy Brandt predicted that 'what belongs together will now grow together.'This study of Berlin's police force in the aftermath of reunification shows that forty years of separation left the nation with deep rifts. Num Pages: 383 pages, 16 halftones, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; GTB; HBJD; HBLW3; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
383
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226297842
ISBN
9780226297842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 33.40

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. Set against the backdrop of women's work experiences, friendships, and communities during World War I, this title draws on a substantial body of new archival material to expose the roadblocks still present in current practices and imagine new alternatives. It clarifies the ethical value and political purpose of identity history. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 halftones, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSK1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226001616
ISBN
9780226001616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.71

Hardcover. A historical memoir that offers a portrait of a remarkable life, told first from the perspective of a young girl in Erie, Pennsylvania, Paris, and Washington before World War I, and then from her husband's postings as US naval attache and then as US ambassador to Belgium, the Soviet Union, and Taiwan during the cold war. Editor(s): Kirk, Roger. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26 illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGHA; JFSJ1; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608912
ISBN
9780815608912
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.79

Paperback. What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? This book argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages, 11 b/w images, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520282049
ISBN
9780520282049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.42

Paperback. Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp. Num Pages: 352 pages. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442615700
ISBN
9781442615700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.87

Hardback. An innovative study of the ways in which Germans of different ages and life stages lived through the violent eruptions of the two world wars, and through the dictatorships of Nazism and then Communism that succeeded them. Num Pages: 528 pages, charts. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JPHX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 173 x 45. Weight in Grams: 946.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199287208
ISBN
9780199287208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.14

Hardback. First comprehensive history in English of political radicalism and counterculture in Japan Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJF; HBLW3; HBLX; JPWF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 145. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849045797
ISBN
9781849045797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.92

paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; JNKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
Revised and Expanded
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253026682
ISBN
9780253026682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Examining the ideal of wilderness preservation in the USA, the author shows how the early (antebellum era) conceptions of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. The policies of Indian removal at Yosemite and other parks are explored. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12 halftones, 1 line figure, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFC; JFSL9; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 287.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195142433
ISBN
9780195142433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.49

Paperback. Museums have become ground zero in America's culture wars. Whereas fierce public debates once centred on provocative work by upstart artists, the scrutiny has expanded to mainstream cultural institutions and the ideas they present. This title examines the most controversial exhibitions of the 1990s. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; GM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814718902
ISBN
9780814718902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Controversial overview of contemporary Middle East, charting the key processes that structure the Oslo process: economic, military, political and cultural. Series: Middle East Issues. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 3JJPR; GTJ; HBJF1; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745313375
ISBN
9780745313375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.33

Hardback. This volume challenges assumptions about the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Using an "ecological" or holistic perspective, the book addresses questions such as the role of military intervention as coercive diplomacy and the influence of post-Cold War European democratic and economic reform. Num Pages: 640 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVWY; 3JJPR; GTB; GTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 39. Weight in Grams: 944.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739102121
ISBN
9780739102121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 231.44

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