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Paperback. Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. He tells of why San Carlos Water was chosen for the assault and the subsequent inshore operations. Num Pages: 300 pages, Numerous B&W Photos. BIC Classification: 1MTASF; 3JJPN; HBJM; HBLW3; HBW; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 142 x 30. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844155064
- ISBN
- 9781844155064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.65
€ 24.99
€ 18.65
Paperback. A comprehensive investigation of the main ethical and conceptual issues surrounding suicide. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551119052
- ISBN
- 9781551119052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.46
€ 43.46
Paperback. Series: American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletins S. Num Pages: 256 pages, 92 line illustrations, 55 halftones, 2 colour illustrations, 88 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAL; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 269 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780873655552
- ISBN
- 9780873655552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 74.03€ 68.24
€ 74.03
€ 68.24
Paperback. Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Editor(s): Chabon, Michael; Waldman, Ayelet. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3JJP; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008229191
- ISBN
- 9780008229191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.18
€ 18.99
€ 15.18
Hardcover. A new volume in the Journal of the American Revolution Books series: By the sixth year of the American Revolution, Britain determined that Virginia would be the key to subduing the South and ultimately the entire rebellion Num Pages: 240 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JF; HBLL; HBWF; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 228. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Westholme Publishing, U.S.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594162794
- ISBN
- 9781594162794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.15
€ 31.99
€ 27.15
paperback. Guides the readers through the complex information that Buddhist texts give about the life and teaching of the Buddha. The author discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time, and traces the development of his thought. He also assesses the rapid and widespread assimilation of Buddhism and its contemporary relevance. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 128 pages, halftones and drawings. BIC Classification: HRE; HRLP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 114 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KAC0004754
- ISBN
- 9780192854537
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCV9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Inter Varsity Pr
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851119854
- ISBN
- 9780851119854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.50
€ 14.99
€ 14.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HRCX6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110 x 10. Weight in Grams: 106. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Darton, Longman and Todd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KAK0002709
- ISBN
- 9780232527827
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Focuses on the work of Umberto Eco - one of Europe's best-known writers and intellectuals. This title covers the range of Eco's work, from his theoretical writings on semiotics to his best-selling novels. It assesses the influence of Eco's work on contemporary culture. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745608495
- ISBN
- 9780745608495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 86.81
€ 86.81
Paperback. Focuses on the work of Umberto Eco - one of Europe's best-known writers and intellectuals. This title covers the range of Eco's work, from his theoretical writings on semiotics to his best-selling novels. It assesses the influence of Eco's work on contemporary culture. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745608501
- ISBN
- 9780745608501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.80
€ 24.80
Hardcover. Examines the history of the religious life on Saint Helena Island off the coast of South Carolina. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; 3JH; GTB; HBJK; HBLL; HRAM9; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780918954732
- ISBN
- 9780918954732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.67
€ 63.67
paperback. Twice in this century popular revolts against colonial rule have occured in the Banten district of West Java. This title details the complicated history of the Bantenese revolts in the twentieth century and probes the ideological riddle of Islamic Communism. Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896801554
- ISBN
- 9780896801554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.33
€ 36.99
€ 34.33
hardcover. Philosophical naturalism, according to which philosophy is continuous with the natural sciences, has dominated the Western academy for well over a century; but the author claims that it is without rational foundation, and that the costs of embracing it are surprisingly high. Num Pages: 256 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034395
- ISBN
- 9780199247608
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.65
€ 5.65
Paperback. The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. This book-length study of this period, traces its history amid a series of overlapping discourses surrounding collectivism, urban renewal, experimentalist aesthetics, underground archives, and the radical politics of self-determination. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 music ex; 21 HTs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPL; AVGJ; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285415
- ISBN
- 9780520285415
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.02
€ 33.99
€ 25.02
Hardback. The New York loft jazz scene of the 1970s was a pivotal period for uncompromising, artist-produced work. Faced with a flagging jazz economy, a group of young avant-garde improvisers chose to eschew the commercial sphere and develop alternative venues in the abandoned factories and warehouses of Lower Manhattan. This is a study of this period. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 music ex; 21 HTs. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJPL; AVGJ; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520285408
- ISBN
- 9780520285408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 72.02
€ 94.08
€ 72.02
Paperback. Challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. This book argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts within other thoughts. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 halftones. 9 line illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: CFD; HPM; JMAQ; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Updated edition with a New Foreword
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691160948
- ISBN
- 9780691160948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.47
€ 26.99
€ 20.47
Paperback. In early nineteenth century the US government, acting through the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), began a systematic campaign to assimilate Indians. Featuring a comparison of US and British government attempts to assimilate problem peoples through mass elementary education, the author offers a portrait of imperialism at work in the two nations. Series: Indigenous Education. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; GTB; HBJD; JFSL9; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803224858
- ISBN
- 9780803224858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
€ 32.99
€ 29.86
Hardback. In the late 1770s, as a wave of revolution and republican unrest swept across Europe, scholars looked with urgency on the progress of European civilization. The author examines their approaches to understanding human development by investigating the invention of a analytic category, "culture." Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 374 pages, 8 halftones, 1 line, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674026179
- ISBN
- 9780674026179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.74€ 72.38
€ 78.74
€ 72.38
Surrounding the war with an aura of nostalgia both fosters the delusion that war can cure our social ills and makes us strong again, and weakens confidence in our ability to act effectively in our own time."-Journal of Military History Num Pages: 304 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412214
- ISBN
- 9781421412214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.05
€ 45.05
This work argues that living history, even if it is an incomplete depiction of the past, plays a vital role in stimulating the historical imagination. It examines how one of the most popular fields of history is portrayed, embraced, and shaped by mainstream culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBJK; JFCA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122403
- ISBN
- 9780813122403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.58
€ 49.58