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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. One of WWII's pivotal events was the capture of U-505 on June 4, 1944. The top secret seizure of this massive Type IX submarine provided the Allies with priceless information on German technology and innovation. Editor(s): Savas, Theodore P. Num Pages: 312 pages, 62 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBWQ; JWMV2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472. U-505 and the U-boat War in the Atlantic. 312 pages, 62 photos, 3 maps. Editor(s): Savas, Theodore P. The first definitive study of U-505. Chapters include her construction, crew and commanders, combat history, an assessment of Type IX operations, naval intelligence, the eight fatal German mistakes that doomed the ill-fated boat, her capture, and final transportation and restoration for posterity. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBWQ; JWMV2. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 17. Weight: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Savas Beatie United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611211283
ISBN
9781611211283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.99

paperback. Examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years of Japanese colonialism. This book shows that as women moved out of traditional spheres to occupy positions outside the home, they encountered the pervasive control of colonial state, which sought to impose modernity on them. Series: Asia Pacific Modern. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; HBTQ; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780520283817
ISBN
9780520283817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.99
€ 28.09

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; 3JJP; APF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157483
ISBN
9780231157483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.70
€ 80.25

Paperback. Tells the story of the epic clash between Senator John F Kennedy and Vice-President Richard M Nixon. This book imbues America's presidential election process. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JPHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061900600
ISBN
9780061900600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.96

paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 386 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVUK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB; JFSC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780691604015
ISBN
9780691604015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.90
€ 45.40

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 386 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1DVUK; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; JHMC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633220
ISBN
9780691633220
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 202.87

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJH; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691632223
ISBN
9780691632223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 198.28

Paperback. Based on a deep knowledge of Indonesia, its language, and its leaders, Friendtraces the history of this nation over the last 50 years, from its liberationfrom Dutch rule in 1949 to the present. Over 100 illustrations. Num Pages: 640 pages, 60 color illustrations, 50 halftones, 13 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 149 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1026.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674018341
ISBN
9780674018341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.74

Paperback. Newest volume of the central scholarly forum for discussion of Brecht and aspects of theater and literature of particular interest to him, especially the politics of literature and theater in a global context. Editor(s): Rippey, Theodore F. Series: Brecht Yearbook. Num Pages: 264 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2AB; 2ACG; 3JJ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780985195632
ISBN
9780985195632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 79.86

Paperback. A life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, who stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32 black / white photographs, 5 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; 3JJC; BGH; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 204 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330. A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America. 288 pages, Illustrations, map. Editor(s): Kroeber, Karl. A life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, who stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; 3JJC; BGH; JFSL9. Dimension: 139 x 204 x 19. Weight: 330.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520271470
ISBN
9780520271470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.68

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1DVWB; 3JJG; HBJD; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801449451
ISBN
9780801449451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.26

Paperback. This is a penetrating analysis of the media techniques psychological underpinnings of the right-wing American, Martin Luther Thomas and what is now called the Radical Right. The book looks at its use of the media to propagate its political and religious agenda. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; JFD; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 195.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804740036
ISBN
9780804740036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.27

Hardback. Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adornoa s intellectual world. Yet although he wrote monographs on Hegel, Husserl and Kierkegaard, the closest he came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture courses, one concentrating on the Critique of Pure Reason and the other on the Critique of Practical Reason. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HPCD; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745621838
ISBN
9780745621838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.38

Hardback. The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. * This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. * Provides a key to the personalities and projects of these two major intellectual figures. Num Pages: 392 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; BGA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 33. Weight in Grams: 704.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745618180
ISBN
9780745618180
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.98

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

€ 56.50
€ 52.20

Paperback. The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. * This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. * Provides a key to the personalities and projects of these two major intellectual figures. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
392
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745632148
ISBN
9780745632148
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.32

Paperback. Kant is a pivotal thinker in Adornoa s intellectual world. Yet although he wrote monographs on Hegel, Husserl and Kierkegaard, the closest he came to an extended discussion of Kant are two lecture courses, one concentrating on the Critique of Pure Reason and the other on the Critique of Practical Reason. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; HPCD; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745628455
ISBN
9780745628455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.12

Hardback. Battles of the Nachtjagd traces the parallel developments in RAF night-bombing and night-fighting in the Luftwaffe, from the pioneering efforts on both sides in this new form of airwar up to the climax of the strategic bombing offensive in 1945 and the simultaneous introduction of the Me 262 jet in the German night fighter army. Num Pages: 348 pages, over 420 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 226 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1952. The Night Airwar Over Europe 1939-1945. 348 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJF; HBJD; HBWN; JWG. Dimension: 284 x 226 x 40. Weight: 1952.
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
SKU
V9780764325243
ISBN
9780764325243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.80
€ 48.76

Paperback. The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism combines fine-grained portraits of local Tea Party members and chapters with an overarching analysis of the movement's rise, impact, and likely fate. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; HBJK; JPA; JPFM; JPL. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 159 x 235 x 2. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Updated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190633660
ISBN
9780190633660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.48

Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 133 x 197 x 7. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472584649
ISBN
9781472584649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFSL; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226289465
ISBN
9780226289465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.71

Paperback. If you liked 'Call the Midwife', you'll love 'Kicking the Habit'. Num Pages: 240 pages, Colour and b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JJP; BGXA; HRCX8; MQD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Lion Hudson Plc United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745956114
ISBN
9780745956114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. The war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) has been called "the Soviet Union's Vietnam War", a conflict that pitted Soviet regulars against a relentless, Afghan guerilla force. In this work, the Russian general staff takes a close critical look at the Soviet military's performance in that war. Editor(s): Grau, Lester W.; Gress, Michael A. Translator(s): Grau, Lester W.; Gress, Michael A. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 364 pages, 32 maps, 19photos. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1FCA; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; HBJD; HBJF; HBLW3; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700611867
ISBN
9780700611867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.82

Paperback. A collection of five pictures which address issues and challenges pertinent (but not exclusively so) to the Black Majority Church in the UK. They sharpen understanding of the way the BMCs have come to do church, and also challenge whether the vision is to maintain the status quo or be a prophetic church. Editor(s): Thompson, Phyllis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JM; HRCC96; HRCX1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780281070282
ISBN
9780281070282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.54

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