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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a little-known chapter in the city's history - the failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. It offers a lesson - both of things gone wrong and a glimpse of how they might be improved. Num Pages: 289 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFC; JFSG; RNR; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520238503
ISBN
9780520238503
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.37
€ 65.17

Hardcover. Illustrated with charming contemporary line drawings, this little book is full of no-nonsense, old-fashioned parenting advice: a gem of a guide for anyone new to the hardest job in the world. Num Pages: 96 pages, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 3JJG; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 98 x 123 x 13. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851244386
ISBN
9781851244386
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 7.47

Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, over 270 bw images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBWQ; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 227 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1234. 192 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBWQ; WGF. Dimension: 288 x 227 x 24. Weight: 1238.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764330971
ISBN
9780764330971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 35.63

Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, over 200 bw images. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWMV1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 288 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1250.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764330988
ISBN
9780764330988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 35.63

Paperback. Janusz Korczak devoted himself to the care of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. This volume constitutes his grimly inspiring ghetto diary, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Betty Jean Lifton, the author of a biography of Korczak. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BGHA; BJ; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300097429
ISBN
9780300097429
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 17.11

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781477312278
ISBN
9781477312278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Hardback. Janos Pelle examines the reasons why Hungarian society chose to ignore the dangers threatening their Jewish neighbours. Reviewing both archival material and contemporary sources, this book asks how extremist publications affected contemporaries and raises the issue of responsibility for the Holocaust in Hungary. Series: East European Monograph. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880335362
ISBN
9780880335362
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.71

Hardcover. This volume is a major contribution to Hungarian economic history since the middle of the nineteenth century. In this first volume of three on the evolution of that economy, the authors focus on the beginnings of the modern capitalist economy (1848-1914), on economic nationalism (1918-1944) and on the socialist attempt at modernization (1945-1989). Editor(s): Berend, Ivan T.; Csato, Tamas. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 180 x 29. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880334822
ISBN
9780880334822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.81
€ 61.86

Hardback. Kornai presents an assessment of Hungary's transition from a socialist to a market economy. In a comprehensive critique of socialist economy reform, Kornai explains how the system's ideological and political attributes deny the idea of "market socialism." Series: EEM Atlantic Studies on Society in Change. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJP; KCP; KCS; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880334556
ISBN
9780880334556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.10

Hardback. Examines the army occupying Arizona and New Mexico in the nineteenth-century, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 1KBBWZ; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803232525
ISBN
9780803232525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.81

Hardback. This study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France. Num Pages: 422 pages, 18 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
422
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072069
ISBN
9780231072069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.84
€ 89.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138941496
ISBN
9781138941496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.78

Paperback. Arguably the most gifted artist of her generation, Amy Winehouse died tragically young, aged just 27. Packed with exclusive material, such as extracts from Amy's teenage diaries, photos and notes, this book offers a new and intimate perspective on the life and death of the phenomenon that is Amy Winehouse. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; AVGP; AVH; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 37. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Corgi Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552170765
ISBN
9780552170765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Hardback. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJG; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801449260
ISBN
9780801449260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.07

Paperback. The Home Front in Britain explores the British Home Front in the last 100 years since the outbreak of WW1. Case studies critically analyse the meaning and images of the British home and family in times war, challenging prevalent myths of how working and domestic life was shifted by national conflict. Editor(s): Andrews, Maggie; Lomas, Janis. Num Pages: 272 pages, 19 figures, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 13. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2014th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137348975
ISBN
9781137348975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.57

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408851104
ISBN
9781408851104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPR; 3JMC; KJVN; RPT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 15. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780850366174
ISBN
9780850366174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.45

Hardcover. Originally published as: Die Forme des Werdens (Geottingen: Wallstein Verlag, c2010). Num Pages: 432 pages, 68 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPK; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Zone Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935408765
ISBN
9781935408765
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.89

Paperback. This study traces the history of how images taken during the Nazi Holocaust have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ignored, suppressed, distorted and exploited for propaganda purposes. It asks whether the images can ever be true representations of the events. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; AJC; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFC; JPVN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860645464
ISBN
9781860645464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.20

Paperback. Using her teenage diaries, the author tells of the horrors of the siege and surrender of Warsaw in 1939, the food shortages, raids and beatings, and the Nazi "Aktion" in 1942, when her family was hounded from shelter to shelter. In 1943 they escaped the ghetto but faced years in hiding. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages, Section: 8, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860686521
ISBN
9780860686521
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.76

Paperback. On November 19, 1990, the states of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe gathered in Paris to end the Cold War. How was this seemingly inevitable conflict avoided? This study looks at the shared and adopted principles that led from confrontation to democratic peace. Series: Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 figures, glossary, biblography, index. BIC Classification: 3JJP; GTJ; HBG; HBLW3; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630326
ISBN
9780815630326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.81

Hardcover. On November 19, 1990, the states of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe gathered in Paris to end the Cold War. How was this seemingly inevitable conflict avoided? This study looks at the shared and adopted principles that led from confrontation to democratic peace. Series: Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 figures, glossary, biblography, index. BIC Classification: 3JJP; GTJ; HBG; HBLW3; JPS; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815630074
ISBN
9780815630074
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.00

Paperback. A completely original history of one of the most extraordinary movements in the world - the Girl Guides - and how they helped win the war. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007356324
ISBN
9780007356324
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.96

paperback. Documents a small but seminal architectural movement that sought to create a radical, new architecture characterized by organic forms, improvisational processes, hands-on methods, and use of natural materials Num Pages: 84 pages, 61 illus. (43 colour). BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fleming Museum United States
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780934658041
ISBN
9780934658041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.09

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