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Paperback. Growing is a portrait of a young man sent straight out from university to help govern Ceylon. It is doubtful that any Empire at any time has been served by such an intelligent, dutiful, hardworking and incorruptible civil servant as the young Leonard Wool Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKS; 3JJC; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780600710
ISBN
9781780600710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.11

Paperback. Analyzing the three Japanese attempts to retake the island in the face of ferocious American resistance, this book shows how the battle was won and lost, and how it affected the outcome of the Pacific War as a whole. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter. Series: Campaign. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 249 x 8. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472806932
ISBN
9781472806932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.43

Paperback. Guantanamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. This history of the women and men who worked on the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay tells the story of US-Cuban relations from a fresh perspective, and at the same time, shows how neocolonialism, empire, and revolution transformed the lives of everyday people. Series: American Crossroads. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTQ; JPS; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520255401
ISBN
9780520255401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.68

Hardcover. Transforming citizen-soldiers into an effective combat unit Num Pages: 384 pages, 17 b&w illus., 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBBEP; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWTR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253355218
ISBN
9780253355218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJP; 3JMC; HBJF1; HBLW3; HBLX; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199754106
ISBN
9780199754106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.00

Paperback. An ethnography exploring disagreements among Paraguayan peasants, government bureaucrats, and development experts about how state bureaucracy should function, what archival documents are for, and who gets to narrate the past. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSP; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350361
ISBN
9780822350361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 30.35

Hardback. An ethnography exploring disagreements among Paraguayan peasants, government bureaucrats, and development experts about how state bureaucracy should function, what archival documents are for, and who gets to narrate the past. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSP; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJK; HBLW3; HBLX; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350194
ISBN
9780822350194
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.83

Paperback. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, this book provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970s. It is also a compelling exploration of the true nature of crime and a provocative meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger in the process of social change. Num Pages: 358 pages, 28 b/w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520264298
ISBN
9780520264298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.78

Paperback. Series: Stackpole Military History Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 22 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBW; JWDG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Stackpole Books United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811734974
ISBN
9780811734974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.20

Paperback. A comparative survey of guerrilla movements in Latin America, this title explores the origins and outcomes of rural insurgencies in nearly a dozen cases since 1956. Focusing on the personal backgrounds of the guerrillas themselves and on national social conditions, it explains why guerrillas emerged strongly in certain countries but not others. Num Pages: 454 pages, 2 figs., 43 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 3JJP; JPWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Printing
Number of pages
454
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691023366
ISBN
9780691023366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 82.08
€ 62.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBTB; HBWP; HBWQ; JPFQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845198688
ISBN
9781845198688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.30

Hardback. Detailed history and understanding of the screenplay from 1963-1980. Series: Guide to Critical Reviews. Num Pages: 708 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APF; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 43. Weight in Grams: 967.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
708
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810815537
ISBN
9780810815537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.56

Hardback. A psychoanalytically informed analysis of the rhetorical and conceptual mechanisms with which postwar Germans most often denied responsibility for the Nazi past. It provides important perspectives on postwar German political culture, on the dynamics of collective memory, and on Adorno's intellectual legacies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; HPS; JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674036031
ISBN
9780674036031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.23
€ 51.39

Hardback. In the early twentieth century poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of China. Investigating the lives of the urban poor in China during this critical era, this book examines the solutions implemented by a nation attempting to deal with "society's most fundamental problem." Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFA; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691152103
ISBN
9780691152103
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.36
€ 54.23

Paperback. Edited collection on volatile African state Guinea-Bissau Editor(s): Chabal, Patrick; Green, Toby. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDX; 3JJPR; 3JM; HBJH; HBTR; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849045216
ISBN
9781849045216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.83

Paperback. Buttressed by historical documentary sources, and by painstaking linguistic researches, Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a re-issue and thematic expansion of her classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and post-emancipation eras. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTS; JFC; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press
Edition
2nd Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9789766405052
ISBN
9789766405052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.49

Paperback. From the pages of "Guitar Player" magazine, this title presents interviews with some of the key guitarists of the 1970s - spanning genres. It includes interviews with Duane Allman, Jimmy Page, David Gilmoour, Peter Frampton, Keith Richards, Marc Bolan, Johnny Ramone, Mick Jones, and many more. Num Pages: 256 pages, Black and White Photos throughout. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; AVH; AVRL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 201 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Hal Leonard Corporation United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781617130021
ISBN
9781617130021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.23

Paperback. A collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. It includes the personal stories of figures such as renowned literary scholar Dmitri Likhachev; Anatoly Marchenko, the son of illiterate labourers; and, American citizen Alexander Dolgun. Editor(s): Applebaum, Anne. Translator(s): Miller, Jane Ann. Series: Annals of Communism. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300177831
ISBN
9780300177831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.32

Paperback. The amazing story of one of the 'Few', fighter ace Tom Neil who shot down 13 enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain. Num Pages: 320 pages, Approx 114 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Amberley Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781445605104
ISBN
9781445605104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.12

Paperback. Lt Cdr Robert Hichens became a legendary MGB commander and the most highly decorated RNVR officer in the Second World War. His biography provides thrilling first hand accounts of close naval action in the North Sea and English Channel. Num Pages: 368 pages, 16pp B&W Photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 624.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473822962
ISBN
9781473822962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.53

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472804983
ISBN
9781472804983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.27

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 42 black & white illustrations, 16 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; BM; HBJD; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 245 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750969826
ISBN
9780750969826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.47

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844159314
ISBN
9781844159314
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.07

Paperback. This book covers the guns that were emplaced along the Atlantic Wall by Germany during WWII. Num Pages: 48 pages, over 100 b/w photos, drawings. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HB; JWM; TTMW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 251 x 3. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764305726
ISBN
9780764305726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

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