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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. Vita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary women. Her grandmother, daughter of an old-clothes pedlar, made her fortune as a dancer and had a scandalous affair with an English diplomat. Their illegitimate daughter Victoria, Vita's mother, spent her childhood hidden in a convent. This book tells their stories. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; BGH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784871161
ISBN
9781784871161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Hardback. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEAC; 3JJG; DNF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509843183
ISBN
9781509843183
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.82

Hardback. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKSHQ; 3JJG; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509844548
ISBN
9781509844548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.82

Hardback. Series: Macmillan Collector's Library. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJG; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 93. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509843312
ISBN
9781509843312
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. This novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life. Virginia Woolf is direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparation for a party. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536009
ISBN
9780199536009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 130 pages, b/w illus & maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, US United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9780939923779
ISBN
9780939923779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.90

Paperback. While it is true that Catherine the Great shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by stallion. Unhappily married to the Grand Duke Peter, she turned her attentions to a certain Sergey Saltykov who fathered the future Tsar Paul I. This biography reveals this extraordinary woman. Num Pages: 592 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JF; BGR; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 38. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099462347
ISBN
9780099462347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.22

Paperback. Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what people thought. They sent their children to co-ed schools; explored homosexuality and Free Love. They were often drunk, broke and hungry but they were rebels. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; AGB; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140289787
ISBN
9780140289787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.91

Paperback. We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. This title tells the story of the women's Second World War. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141037899
ISBN
9780141037899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

Paperback. Tells the story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helped change society. This title is about those women, and about how they were forced, to stop depending on men for their income. Num Pages: 432 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141020624
ISBN
9780141020624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Hardback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3F; 3H; 3J; DSBB; HPCB; HRAX; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 231 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137465580
ISBN
9781137465580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.58

Paperback. Little is known about these Nigerian Islamist insurgents, and the author sheds invaluable light Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JM; JPFR; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
KOG0000267
ISBN
9781849046619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Little is known about these Nigerian Islamist insurgents, and the author sheds invaluable light Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JM; JPFR; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
KOG0000244
ISBN
9781849046619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; 3JM; BGH; JPFM; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0015852
ISBN
9781786062642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. This volume records the speed and nature of the public and official response to AIDS in the UK, describing how, in less than 15 years, a network of organizations developed, devoted to the study, containment and treatment of this new, critical disease. Num Pages: 404 pages, line figures, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; JFFH2; MBN; MBX; MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
404
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198204732
ISBN
9780198204732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.70

Editor(s): Bernhard, Virginia (University of St. Thomas). Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Texas State Historical Association,U.S. United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9781625110015
ISBN
9781625110015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.05

Hardback. Brings together two subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the US. This work embraces East and West, as well as North and South, as the US observes the 2015 sesquicentennial commemoration of the end of the Civil War. Editor(s): Scharff, Virginia. Num Pages: 264 pages, 17 color plates, 67 b/w photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 186 x 23. Weight in Grams: 716.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520281264
ISBN
9780520281264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. Num Pages: 1100 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; AVGC4; AVH; BGFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 124. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
The Library of America
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781598534672
ISBN
9781598534672
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 42.92

Hardback. Eudine Barriteau exposes the precarious position of women in 20th-century Caribbean societies through analyzing the operations of gender systems. The strategies used by developing states to focus on women are criticized as inadequate. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 3JJ; JFFK; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333732823
ISBN
9780333732823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Paperback. The rich and fascinating oral narrative of an African American WWII fighter pilot, radio personality, and co-founder of Harlem's American Negro Theater. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 1KLCM; 3JJH; HBJK; HBTD; JFSL3; JWG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137281968
ISBN
9781137281968
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.25

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