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Paperback. Presents a fresh study of Napoleon's last years as a captive on St Helena, telling the story of this final chapter in Bonaparte's life as seen through the eyes of the Britons around him. This title offers insight into the reasoning behind the decision to send Napoleon to the remote island. Num Pages: 224 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752451473
- ISBN
- 9780752451473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.77
€ 21.99
€ 20.77
Paperback. In 1815, the young Dublin doctor Barry O'Meara accepted the opportunity of a lifetime to look after Napoleon Bonaparte in his banishment on St Helena. In one of the most isolated places on earth, doctor and patient became intimate friends. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1MTASH; 3JH; BGH; BJ; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155. .
- Publisher
- O´Brien Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847178916
- ISBN
- 9781847178916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.51
€ 16.99
€ 14.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 200 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations, 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750969758
- ISBN
- 9780750969758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.65
€ 31.99
€ 30.65
Hardback. In 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of St Helena to begin his imprisonment following Waterloo. By 1821 he was dead. This book addresses the political pitfalls navigated with varying success by the men who were assigned to care for the most famous man in Europe. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 170 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First edition.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752448572
- ISBN
- 9780752448572
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.90
€ 26.99
€ 23.90
Hardback. This work centres on the post-Roman period of Narbonne and its territory, up to its capture by the Arabs in 720, encompassing not only recent archaeological findings but also perspectives of French, Spanish and Catalan historiography that have fashioned distinct national narratives. Seeking to remove Narbonne from any subsequent birth of France. Num Pages: 304 pages, Includes 5 b&w illustrations and 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3D; 3F; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 173 x 24. Weight in Grams: 692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409455349
- ISBN
- 9781409455349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.89
€ 185.89
Paperback. Governments throughout the world are policing and curbing excitement. From crusades against alcohol and bans on sexual deviance to ever more prohibitions on drugs, it seems that almost no avenue of stimulation is safe from the puritanical oversight of the state. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509506842
- ISBN
- 9781509506842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.58
€ 21.58
Hardback. Governments throughout the world are policing and curbing excitement. From crusades against alcohol and bans on sexual deviance to ever more prohibitions on drugs, it seems that almost no avenue of stimulation is safe from the puritanical oversight of the state. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 130. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509506835
- ISBN
- 9781509506835
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.09
€ 54.09
Paperback. Explains how as a result of British efforts to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBT; JFFH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849044721
- ISBN
- 9781849044721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.38
€ 26.99
€ 25.38
Paperback. Narrating 9/11 pushes beyond a critical focus on domestic realism, offering chapters that examine speculative and genre fiction, postmodernism, climate change, and the evolving security state, as well as the television series Lost and the film Paradise Now. Editor(s): Duvall, John N.; Marzec, Robert P. Series: A Modern Fiction Studies Book. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; DSBH5; DSK; HBJK; JPWL2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 249 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421417387
- ISBN
- 9781421417387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.45
€ 47.45
Hardback. Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time. This work explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development. It argues that narrative plays a key role in helping societies acknowledge their pasts. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory: Philosophies of Gender, Race, and Society S. Num Pages: 244 pages, 0 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings, 0 tables. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140300
- ISBN
- 9780231140300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.73€ 46.93
€ 58.73
€ 46.93
Paperback. Series: AAR Academy Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555408756
- ISBN
- 9781555408756
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.82
€ 41.82
Paperback. To what extent does peoplehood make sense today? Can plural societies tell "national stories" without marginalising their minorities? Should historians be concerned with stories of peoplehood? This book offers theoretical reflections on the narrative character of national identities and studies of the contexts in which they emerged. Editor(s): Boss, Michael. Num Pages: 345 pages. BIC Classification: HBAH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 345
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788779345690
- ISBN
- 9788779345690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99
€ 26.99
Hardback. Modern medicine has penetrated Bedouin tribes, but when serious illnesses strike, even educated people turn to traditional medicine for a remedy. Based on interviews with healers, clients, and other active participants in treatments, this book will contribute to renewed thinking about a synthesis between traditional and modern medicine.. Editor(s): Fischer-Nebmaier, Wladimir; Berg, Matthew P.; Christou, Anastasia. Series: Space and Place. Num Pages: 256 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 22. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782387756
- ISBN
- 9781782387756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.76
€ 161.76
Hardback. A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating processes of Europeanization and globalization. Editor(s): Berger, Stefan; Eriksonas, Linas; Mycock, Andrew. Series: Making Sense of History. Num Pages: bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845454241
- ISBN
- 9781845454241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.20
€ 162.20
Paperback. Explores the nature of historical knowledge and its reliance on narrative. This book introduces the concept of "narrative sentences," in which an event is described with reference to later events and discusses why such sentences cannot be understood until the later event happens. It compares narrative and scientific explanation. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138239
- ISBN
- 9780231138239
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.36
€ 40.99
€ 29.36
Hardcover. In this work, overviews of the relevant literature on modern life, as well as empirical case studies, appear alongside theoretical and methodological reflections. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571817778
- ISBN
- 9781571817778
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.78
€ 161.78
Paperback. This study offers an alternative to rigid, legalistic interpretations of the substantial discussions of law in Thomas Aquinas's "Summa theologiae" and defends his ethics from charges of excessive legalism. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPQ; LAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268014858
- ISBN
- 9780268014858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
Hardcover. Num Pages: 278 pages, 24 b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 217 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763507806
- ISBN
- 9788763507806
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.73€ 46.89
€ 58.73
€ 46.89
Paperback. Translated from the Greek by Nicholas Coureas. Together with an anthology of Greeks texts from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries realting to Cyprus, and translated by Hans A. Pohlsander. Editor(s): Orphanides, Andreas G.; Wallace, Paul W. Translator(s): Coureas, Dr. Nicholas; Pohlsander, Hans A. Series: Sources for the History of Cyprus. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVC; HBLC1; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 284 x 196. Weight in Grams: 848.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- 21st Elementary School Stavrou Cyprus
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789963080922
- ISBN
- 9789963080922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.32
€ 29.32
Paperback. In his wrenching, classic autobiography--one of the most important documents in American history--Douglass describes himself as a man who became a slave and, later, a slave who became a man. Reissue. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 105 x 11. Weight in Grams: 83.
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Signet Classics
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780451529947
- ISBN
- 9780451529947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.12
€ 7.12