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Paperback. Provides an account of life of the author's first tour of duty in Vietnam - the blood, fear, camaraderie, and tedium of combat and maneuver. First published in 1987, this book shows an eager young recruit growing before the reader's eyes into a proud but bloodied combat veteran. Series: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; 3JJPK; BGHA; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585446049
ISBN
9781585446049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.45

Paperback. Beate Sirota Gordon was born in Vienna, but in 1929 her family moved to Japan so that her father, a noted pianist, could teach, and she grew up speaking German, English, and Japanese. In 1946, at age twenty-two, she helped to draft the new postwar Japanese constitution. This title chronicles the unlikely string of events that led her to that role. Num Pages: 176 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; BM; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 10. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226132518
ISBN
9780226132518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.22

Hardcover. A compelling acount of Rita Lankin's time working in Hollywood during the male dominated industry of the early 1960s Num Pages: 304 pages, Two 8-page photo inserts. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJPK; APT; BGF; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781495014055
ISBN
9781495014055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

hardcover. A study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. Margaret Jensen re-imagines the links between text and context as palimpsest historicizes literary influence, by taking Bloomian "anxiety" and Kristevan "intertextuality" into fields of actual history and biography. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Edition
2002nd Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293536
ISBN
9780312293536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 405 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JMR; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 26. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226361901
ISBN
9780226361901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.76

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 941 color photos. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JJPR; WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 234 x 28. Weight in Grams: 41.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764315930
ISBN
9780764315930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.22
€ 67.91

Hardcover. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to the re-establishment of the post-war Italian film industry, ensuring cinema's position at the forefront of 20th century mass culture. This title provides an analysis of cineopera or opera film. Num Pages: 240 pages, 25 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJP; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 237 x 18. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748656424
ISBN
9780748656424
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.80
€ 102.74

Paperback. Looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, "terror labor," and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, this book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Translator(s): Templer, William. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 554. The Concentration Camp. 370 pages, black & white illustrations. Looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, "terror labor," and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, this book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight: 530. Translator(s): Templer, William.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
370
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691006857
ISBN
9780691006857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. This is a lavishly illustrated history of the Oregon-American Lumber Company, one of the most important lumber firms in the Pacific Northwest from 1922 to 1957. The book shows in text and 285 illustrations how the lumbering industry was pivotal to America's settlement and development, reaching its zenith in the period covered by this book. Num Pages: 384 pages, 285 illustrations, 17 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBT; KNAL; KND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 6782 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1501.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804744812
ISBN
9780804744812
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.27
€ 69.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DVWB; 3JJ; HBJD; JFSL1; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801477201
ISBN
9780801477201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1DVWB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JFSR2; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801441325
ISBN
9780801441325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.82

Paperback. The Origins of Italian Fashion examines the history of Italian fashion from the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Lombard tailor Rosa Genoni created the first Italian fashion house independent from the prevailing French style, to World War II, when the Fascist regime co-opted fashion as a propaganda tool. Num Pages: 112 pages, 80 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JJ; AKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
V & A Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851777914
ISBN
9781851777914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.70

Paperback. Focuses on a talented, brave, but tiny minority of whites - liberals, radicals, communists, Trotskyists, humanists, Christians, idealists - who rejected the growing racism of post-war South Africa and worked to breach the dividing line between black and white. Num Pages: 240 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145003
ISBN
9781868145003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.03

Paperback. An investigation into the origins of the Angolan civil war of 1975-76. By looking at the interaction between internal and external factors, this book reveals the domestic roots of the conflict and the impact of foreign intervention on the civil war. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMA; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBW; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333914809
ISBN
9780333914809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.38

Hardcover. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of social welfare and social policy in Britain before the modern welfare state. It examines the role played by voluntary social provision (including self-help and mutual aid), as well as the growth of state intervention, in meeting welfare needs. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 3JH; 3JJ; HBT; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 753. "Includes bibliographical references (p. 376-382) and index. Commissioning organisation: Bernard Harris. xii, 402 p. ill. 24 cm. Paperback. As new." Keywords: "Business, Finance & Law - Careers - Community Services,History - Other Historical Subjects - General,His"
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
2004th Edition
SKU
KEX0166456
ISBN
9780333649978
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 60.75

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1DVT; 1FBN; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; HBTW; JPSD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 914.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691643618
ISBN
9780691643618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 261.39

Paperback. A concise introduction to one of the major historical controversies, brought right up-to-date for this 3rd edition. Series: Lancaster Pamphlets. Num Pages: 96 pages, chronology. BIC Classification: 3JJC; 3JJF; HBG; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 2. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415261852
ISBN
9780415261852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.90

hardcover. Presents a narrative on the origins of the Lebanese national idea. This title reconsiders conventional accounts that locate the origins of Lebanese nationalism in a distant legendary past and then trace its evolution in a linear and gradual manner. It is suitable for those interested in the evolution of nationalism in the Middle East and beyond. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJF1; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780520273412
ISBN
9780520273412
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.99
€ 60.41

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 430 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBTB; HBWN; JPA; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 942.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691644868
ISBN
9780691644868
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 216.36

Paperback. This text looks at the roots of the struggle in Northern Ireland and of British intervention, setting both in the longer perspective of the Anglo-Irish troubles. The book seeks to place the use of the army within the wider British context of dealing with political violence. Series: Origins of Modern War. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJD1; HBLW3; JPQB; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276. 8vo.Standard paperback edition.

. Northern Ireland, Ulster. First edition.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Routledge
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KEX0296675
ISBN
9780582100732
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 25.00

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