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Hardback. This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Richard B. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405163729
ISBN
9781405163729
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.83

Paperback. This comprehensive book illuminates the most fertile and exciting period in American film, a time when the studio system was at its peak and movies played a critical role in elevating the spirits of the public. Richard B. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405163736
ISBN
9781405163736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.95

Hardback. Drawing on a range of memoirs, art, poetry, and contemporary records, this title reconstructs their experience of captivity, return, and encounter with a postwar Japan that now seemed as alien as it had once been familiar. Num Pages: 256 pages, 14 b/w photographs, 3 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520276154
ISBN
9780520276154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.68
€ 49.90

Paperback. This is the first book about the life of jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey CBE (1926-2013). Drawn largely from his personal diaries and some of his many interviews, his son Clark Tracey pieces together what made the late Stan Tracey a unique character in jazz music. Num Pages: 256 pages, 36 photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; AVGJ; AVH; AVRG; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 599.
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781793534
ISBN
9781781793534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.65

Paperback. The Go-Go Years "The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place. Series: Wiley Investment Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; KCZ; KFFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471357544
ISBN
9780471357544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 30.42

Hardcover. As railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced." Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBG; JFFS; PDX; PGZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 244 x 26. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674286146
ISBN
9780674286146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 46.26

Paperback. Editor(s): Belting, Hans; Buddensieg, Andrea; Weibel, Peter. Num Pages: 464 pages, 395 color illus., 5 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; 3JM; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 280 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1842.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780262518345
ISBN
9780262518345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.80
€ 45.33

Paperback. Explores the debates and rhetoric surrounding home-based workers that have taken place in global movements and multilateral organizations since the early 1900s. This title describes the rules that have separated home and work and, in the process, created a diverse array of distinctly gendered identities. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFSJ; JHBL; JPS; KCF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press New York
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231115612
ISBN
9780231115612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.91

Paperback. Prize-winning study of the global conflict waged during the Cold War and its legacy today. Num Pages: 496 pages, 15 b/w illus. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 808. Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. 495 pages, 15 b/w illus. 10 maps. Prize-winning study of the global conflict waged during the Cold War and its legacy today. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 3JJP; HBG; HBLW; JPS. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight: 810.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521703147
ISBN
9780521703147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.53

Paperback. .
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138709485
ISBN
9781138709485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.58

Hardback. "The 1920s is often recognised as a decade of fascism, flappers and film. Covering the political, economic and social developments of the 1920s throughout the world, [this book] takes an international and cross-cultural perspective on the critical changes and conditions that prevailed from roughly 1919 to 1930"--Page ii. Series: Decades in Global History. Num Pages: 260 pages, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HBG; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138774780
ISBN
9781138774780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.77
€ 140.64

paperback. A cross-country road trip in the tradition of Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance Series: Break Away Books. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPL; JFCA; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 4522 x 3226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253223449
ISBN
9780253223449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.54

Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 379 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; AFP; AKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 315 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2020.
Publisher
Skira
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9788857232447
ISBN
9788857232447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 49.00

Paperback. This beautiful book is an indispensable history of the fashion houses that have become synonymous with show-stopping glamour. The Glamour of Italian Fashion showcases the fashions that turned 'Made in Italy' into an internationally recognized mark of style. Editor(s): Stanfill, Sonnet. Num Pages: 272 pages, 250 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJP; ACX; AKTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 318 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1686.
Publisher
V & A Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851778171
ISBN
9781851778171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 23.46

Paperback. A pioneering, field-defining collection of essential texts exploring girlhood in the twentieth century Editor(s): Forman-Brunell, Miriam; Paris, Leslie. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JFC; JFSJ1; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252077685
ISBN
9780252077685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.03

Hardcover. Lady Ursula d'Abo's memoirs of her uniquely glamorous life make riveting reading. Her vivid accounts include life at Belvoir Castle, her role in the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937 and her close friendships with men as varied as Rex Whistler, the Maharajah of Jaipur and Paul Getty. Editor(s): Watkin, David. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 page plate section. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
d'Abo Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907991097
ISBN
9781907991097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.83

Hardback. The drama, expansion, and wealth of New York City's transformative era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 350 b&w and colour. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 315 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1770.
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316353663
ISBN
9780316353663
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.14

Paperback. This volume gathers together documents that illustrate the variety of experiences and themes involved in the transformation of American political, economic, and social systems from the 1870s to World War I, and presents the essential perspectives of race, class, gender, and culture. Editor(s): Link, William A.; Link, Susannah J. Series: Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444331394
ISBN
9781444331394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.47

Hardcover. David Max Eichhorn, a Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Army's XV Corps, saw action across France and into Germany until VE-Day and beyond. His letters show us a devoutly religious man trying to cope with the perils of combat and the needs of his fellow soldiers. Editor(s): Palmer, Greg; Zaid, Mark S. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700613564
ISBN
9780700613564
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.52

Paperback. Recounts the harrowing experiences of American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific. Based on countless diaries and letters, it sweeps across the battlefields, from the early desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at war's very end. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJF; HBJK; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814740156
ISBN
9780814740156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.04

Paperback. An account of the GI offensive in Europe. From the mobilization of an ill-trained and poorly-equipped army in 1940 to the juggernaut of 69 infantry divisions in 1945, Peter R. Mansoor provides an analysis of the long and bloody road to victory over the German army. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 32 photographs, 14 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWD; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700612260
ISBN
9780700612260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.64

Paperback. The Ghosts of Happy Valley is a mesmerising blend of travel narrative, social history and personal quest. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 3JJG; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Aurum Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781311677
ISBN
9781781311677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.60

Hardback. Series: Schiffer Military History Book. Num Pages: 224 pages, over 110 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1366.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764312854
ISBN
9780764312854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.67
€ 46.12

Paperback. A profound account and analysis of the Gestapo. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 132 x 289 x 24. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444778076
ISBN
9781444778076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

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